Theme update: Looking good

For the past few weeks, whenever I’ve got the time, and am not feeling lazy, I used to work on my theme. I was actually starting from scratch and building the theme around it. But I struck an awesome idea and took apart k2, and analyzed the structure, and I’ve made some significant progress in that area.

Few juicy details:
I had to actually change the complete internal structure. My theme will have the first post /main post occupying full space and no sidebar initially. But on the side will be a little area for adsense. The focus will be on the post and it’ll look best on a morderately large post with a picture in it perhaps.

There’s a collapsible “infobar”, a table with an inline frame inside from which you can access unnessacary shit like latest posts, archives, calendars, etc, and leave room on your sidebar for neat stuff. Also this will have rss details, technorati and all is curved corners.

The most exciting thing I did today was research and finalize a neat thing called the “post toolkit”, a small section that appears after the first post on the main page and on the single posts. The toolkit has a quick comment option, so you don’t have to navigate all the way down to comment, it also has “digg this”, a nifty tool to export your post to pdf, email this post(ajaxified) and more suggestions are welcome. Also stuff like the tags, date, etc are shown in this.

K2 has a gargantuan amount of features, in fact there are some amazing plugins that it has out of the box support for. In fact, since my theme is cored around k2, these will also be there. Even more fun is the livesearch and rolling archives. Lots more ajax can be expected in my theme.

I’ll be done with the theme sooner than I thought, suggestions are most welcome.