Right now is a great time to start a blog. The powerful K2 interface with the sleek Deviance mod will guarantee you readers that do not just glance and leave. Intrigued readers will be lured in from the get-go; the way it should be.
How Deviance Was Born
In mid-September, PaulStamatiou.com went through several design phases. The latter and best of which you are currently viewing. I have received many positive responses from readers about my mod, all of which requested a formal release. I asked some more people for their opinions. After many of these requests I figured people weren’t playing so I sat down for about 6 hours, cleaned up my CSS, wrote some instructions and then wrote this post. The slick name Deviance just popped into my head. I double checked by visiting my Oxford’s Dictionary widget and was happily surprised as the definition goes right inline with what this mod is all about; being different.
deviance
1: a state or condition markedly different from the norm
2: deviate behavior
More Info Please
Deviance is more than a scheme. It’s a full mod, including adding a comments icon and changing default comment numbering behavior, making the header graphic clickable, adding RSS icons and adding a Technorati icon for tags. Everything you need is included, psd’s for the header and footer graphic and instructions galore. Don’t believe it? Check out the README.
Alright Buddy, Where’s the Download Link Already?
You have waited long enough, so now I present do you Deviance, the uber K2 Mod. Download, be amazed then spread the word!
Sorry, I have discontinued Deviance.
some Deviance tweaks accidentally show in this screenshot
PaulStamatiou.com runs on the Thesis Theme for WordPress
Thesis is the search engine optimized WordPress theme of choice for serious online publishers. If you’re a blogger who doesn’t understand a lot of PHP, Thesis will give a ton of functionality without having to alter any code. For the advanced, Thesis has incredible customization possibilities via Thesis hooks.
With so many design options, you can use the template over and over and never have it look like the same site. The theme is robust and flexible enough not only to accommodate a site like PaulStamatiou.com, but also to enable the site to run far more efficiently than it ever has before.
I used the Scribe WordPress plugin and service to optimize this blog post for SEO.
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Hmmmmm…
we wait with interest
Alright, I think I can use this for my other blog :)
Nice work, thanks for sharing.
Question: Is it 800×600 compatible? Or it’s the same width as your site now?
(Also, your site’s footer still needs some widening — it appears to be in sync with your old width.)
Nice. I’ll test this out soon.
Konstantinos: Deviance is the same width as my site now, which is currently set at 800px width. About the footer, it looks fine on this side, so I would recommend clearing your cache as you may have the old version.
Paul: Hmm, the cache is cleared — you’ve got mail.
Three words…
Well, done, sir!
Not dark and broody enough for me ;) , but you’ve really done a marvelous job. The integration of the Comments & Technorati Tag icons lend a very understated yet distinctive touch, and I find the #eee/#fff/#999 color combination to very easy on the eyes. I don’t have time to pick through the CSS right this minute, but it’s on my “to-do” list for tomorrow. Hmm…hope I find some thing I can “borrow” :)
Peace,
GG
Hi, I liked your theme and am trying it out at the moment. I have followed your instructions, customised the header image a little, just trying to see what it could look like, however I can not get the image to show. Now admittedly I don’t know CSS, but your readme seemed to be simple hence why I am trying it. however I cannot make my header appear on my page. now matte how many times i refresh or reselect the theme in dashboard it does not appear. What am i doing wrong??
Cheers
Did you make a header as per the “Header Graphic Instructions” in the header folder and save the file in the header folder? No actual headers images are included, just a PSD file so you can drop in an image and create a header for yourself. You shouldn’t have to touch the CSS, it will automatically use the rotate.php file to locate and display your header graphic. Let me know if you have any trouble with the psd file.
I did it as the instructions in the header folder tell me to. Placed the saved image which I named header.jpg in that folder, however it doesn’t seem to come up.
Nice! Everything works a treat, and I was even able to figure out your Photoshop instructions and apply them to Fireworks (and I have NO IDEA about graphics editing). I’ve played a little. Go see. Shiny!
Hello, great mod!! I’m working on it!
I’d like to know what did u change to put the comment form below the comments?
Thanks man :)
Pasteler0: I’m not sure I know what you mean… are you talking about the Live Comments Preview plugin or the contact form on the contact page?
I’ve been staring blankly at my screen for so long I think I’ve gone cross-eyed. :?
Anywho… I can’t seem to get the the technoratia img with UTW to work… I did find I only had two instances of TAGS in theloop… could that be part of the issue? Am I somehow missing another?
Chris: Take a look at this thread on the Binary Bonsai forums. That’s where I found out how to apply that tweak.
Paul,
Thanks very much for putting this out for the adoring public. It’s a pretty awesome setup you’ve got here. So kudos for your generosity.
Stuart: Thanks for the comment.. I almost didn’t get your comment, my spam plugin, Akismet, thought it was spam for some reason. I guess its still “learning.”
Hey Paul,
Thanks for putting this wicked K2 mod up for all to use. Now I just need to make some cool header images… :)
Paul,
Heh heh … thanks for pulling my comment out of the bin :).
Any word if all is well with the new K2 r1118 & Deviance r1?
Having looked at the diff file, my guess is that with minimal hacking, as per Paul’s instructions in the zipfile, Deviance r1 and K2 r1118 should play together just fine.
You’ll obviously need to reedit the K2 templates affected by the mod, but there shouldn’t be much else. That said, I’m not doing anything with the sidebar on my site, so there might be changes there…
You need to be careful, certain things like sb_flickr (which is now sb-flickr) might not work. I will release a highly updated release 2 this weekend, that has many needed fixes.