footer – Climb to the Stars

Digital Spring Cleaning [en]

[fr] Nouveau design pour Digital Crumble, et quelques nettoyages de printemps pour Climb to the Stars (notez l'allègement du menu de navigation et des barres latérales, et l'apparition d'un gros pied de page truffé de liens et d'infos.

I’ve played about a bit with Climb to the Stars and Digital Crumble. It’s nice to dip one’s hands in a little HTML, CSS and PHP every now and again.

So, what have we got?

Digital Crumble has a brand new design. Whiter than the last one, but with enough pink to make me happy. (I customized it just a little.)

As for Climb to the Stars, the sad state of my sidebars had been bringing me down for months, so I finally decided to do something about it. I found a tutorial for adding a fat footer to Thesis and tried it out. I have to say that one thing I like about the Thesis theme I’m using here is the number of tutorials lying around to make just about any customization you can think of.

So, a lot of stuff that used to clutter up the sidebars is now in the fat footer at the bottom of each page.

While I was at it, I decided to have only one sidebar instead of two, and cleaned up the navigation bar at the top (most of the extra stuff is now in the footer). I also found a tutorial for moving the search form into the site header (and out of the sidebar!)

I had to fiddle around with both tutorials (mainly the CSS) until I got something I liked. I hope you’ll like it too!

K2 Styles and Mods [en]

[fr] J'ai besoin d'un joli design pour la nouvelle version de mon site professionnel. (J'en avais marre qu'il soit tellement "pas à jour" que j'ai pris le taureau par les cornes.) Idéalement, je voudrais un style K2 ou Sandbox. Motivé?

I got fed up with [my professional site](http://stephanie-booth.com) being so out-of-date, so I [archived the 2006 version](http://2006.stephanie-booth.com) and threw together a few new pages with WordPress.

I need a design. I’d like to use [Sandbox](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/09/09/the-hatomisation-of-ctts/) or [K2](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/09/09/k2/) as a base, so that everything is nice and [microformatty](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/09/09/using-hatom/). I’ve had a look at K2 styles, but haven’t yet found a nice browsable directory of them.

In addition to that, my pro site isn’t a blog — I’m just using wordpress because it’s a nice way to manage the static pages and the design. I’d like to add a [big footer, Hemingway-style](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/10/13/large-footer-lust/) — has anybody done a mod of K2 with a sidebar **and** a large footer?

I’m also totally open to suggestions regarding the design of the new site. I don’t have any strong desires apart for pink, of course. If you’re motivated to create a style or mod for me, I’d be willing to part with some cash or buy stuff of a wishlist.

Large Footer Lust [en]

[fr] C'est décidé, je veux un large pied de page à remplir de widgets, comme ceux qu'on voit de plus en plus dans les thèmes WordPress.

It’s official. I want a large footer I can stuff full of [widgets](http://widgets.wordpress.com/), like the one I see over at [Ordered List](http://orderedlist.com/). Anybody added one to [K2](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/09/09/k2/)?

Getting good at short posts, ain’t I?

Blog Design: Big Footers [en]

[fr] Je commence à voir l'intérêt des immenses pieds de pages que l'on voit sur certains blogs, et qui servent en fait de sidebar secondaire. Je me demande s'il existe une modification du thème K2 qui offre ça (widgets à la clé, bien sûr).

Just a note to say I’m starting to see the interest of big footers with “secondary content” stuffed into them. Look at [this slightly extreme example](http://yeksoon.neusteps.com/?p=63).

Are there any K2 mods around with big bad-ass widgetised footers?

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