I’ve been working on a new theme for MyBB and its almost ready. Aardvark has a modern, minimalist design that carries over elements of Dark Intentions, N.Design and other popular MyBB themes. That said, it has a style all its own and some neat new features built in. For example, the semi-glossy header text is generated with CSS. The buttons are also text based, so there is absolutely no Photoshopping necessary. Please tell me what you think. You can try an early version of the theme below.
Aardvark (1.4.4) (147.5 KiB, 192 hits)
I finally moved the Inter-A website over to WordPress. There were a number of advantages to the move which I’ll outline below.
- Painless adding and editing of content.
- Multiuser editing (students, teachers)
- Easy plugins for extended functionality
- Save draft content for review
- Great SEO
- Administration time cut in half
On top of the switch to WordPress, I also updated the theme of the site. Its a more minimalist and elegant. I also decided to bring the resolution back down 800px width. In a world with such disparity in resolution, its best practice just to keep as many people as happy as possible. In this case that meant supporting 800×600ers who were complaining about the change ever since I made it. I tried the experiment, my audience just isn’t ready for it yet.
So far I’m very happy with the move. We’ll see how it goes and wether or not its easy enough for technically challenged students and faculty to deal with.
My replacement computer arrived the other day. The screen isn’t prefect, but it is much better. I’m going to use it as is and consider having the display replaced at a later time, but I am more than happy with my shiny new 2′ iMac.
As promised, I started work on Dark Intentions 1.4. Its coming along nicely. I need to add some buttons, iron a few areas and insert all the little niceties. We should see a release some time this week. I’m serious this time. I’m also happy to tell you that I intend to provide an enhanced version sometime down the line. It will be easier to customize, and may even integrate in to your K2/WordPress site. We’ll see how it goes.
I’ve received a lot of questions about my Dark Intentions theme for MyBB. To answer everyone’s questions, yes, there will be a release for 1.4. I’ve been working on a few other projects, but we should see a new version within a week. I’ve got some special things planned for this release, so hold on tight.
If you have any suggestions for new themes that I’ll be working on after Dark Intentions, please email me or comment. Also, I’ve received a number of inquiries about custom themes. I do write custom themes at a reasonable price, please email me if you’d like a quote or sample of custom work I’ve done. Also look out for a new MyBB section coming to quacktacular.net soon with more information on free and custom themes.
Update: Sorry for the delay guys, I haven’t forgotten about you. I’m waiting for my aluminum iMac arrive so I can get this done (using my iMac G4 now, doesn’t really cut it for development).
The folks at MyBB claim that Beta 4 will be the last release before 1.4 is sent out into the world this weekend. I have mixed feelings about this release. The team has made great progress, squashing countless bugs and refining the interface. There are a few remaining problems that don’t seem to be fixed and likely won’t be. The greatest concerns here are a few cosmetic anomalies that will be a major irritation to administrators and theme developers if left unfixed.
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I’ve been working on a new theme for MyBB and its almost ready. Aardvark has a modern, minimalist design that carries over elements of Dark Intentions, N.Design and other popular MyBB themes. That said, it has a style all its own and some neat new features built in. For example, the semi-glossy header text is generated with CSS. The buttons are also text based, so there is absolutely no Photoshopping necessary. Please tell me what you think. You can try an early version of the theme below.
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