Kolvik
The Kolvik theme is made available on an as-is basis, with no warranties or support. It is released under a Creative Commons license with some rights reserved. Specifically:
- You must give attribution by linking back to the Kolvik site on any page that uses this theme.
- You may not sell this theme. You may use the theme as part of consulting services and for commercial sites.
- Modifications to the Kolvik theme should be also be licensed under the same terms.
I started the design of Kolvik for my my blog. Eventually, I ported my blog and its design to WordPress and Kolvik is what I decided to name the theme. Kolvik is an area outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Literally translated, it means Coal Bay.
For the WordPress theme, I started from the WordPress Classic theme design.
The Kolvik theme is full of whitespace and light shades. WordPress Pages make the boxes at the top of the page. My two main design requirements were:
- to maintain design at resolutions from 1024×768 to 1600×1400
- to make it easy to post large images
By happenstance, it has the following good traits:
- valid XHTML Transitional
- valid CSS 2
- WordPress Widget ready
- WordPress 2.8 ready (also tested under 2.7, 2.6 and 2.5)
If you like the design and decide to use it, I’d be glad to hear about it.
To demonstrate the ability to add large pictures to posts, below is a typical scene from a Swedish summer.
posted by: dan @ 22 Nov 2006 17:20 | Comments (0)