Ugg! Need look like this :p

[jwvanderbeck]

Lol scuse the fried brain cells...

I've got 90% of my site backend code finally written and i'm now working on porting it all to the K2 theme. However before I port the backend code, I need to wrestle K2 into looking the way I want it to look. Unfortunately i'm a lot better at PHP coding than I am at CSS styling.

Would there happen to be any kind souls out there who could tell me how to take a STOCK K2 install and wrestle the theme to look like the pics at the bottom of this post? Even better yet provide a CSS file that I could use?

I'd be eternally grateful, send you some virtual cookies, perhaps even father your children. Well at least the cookies would be a definite.

Anyway.. there are two pics one image showing the top and the other showing the bottom for reference. Theres a lot of backend code involved in the site in the images, but all I need to do is get K2 to be laid out in the right visual style and then i'll port the code over.

http://john.vanderbeck.us/images/layout1a.jpg

Almost the same view here, but its just so you can see the footer area.
http://john.vanderbeck.us/images/layout1b.jpg

[JohnW.]

The allure of the virtual cookies was too much, I couldn't resist. ;)
http://jjwester.resnet.mtu.edu/blog/wp-content/themes/k2cleaner/styles/sample.css

I had to use a few images, so here they are. Don't forget to edit the links in the css to lead to wherever you end up putting the images.
http://jjwester.resnet.mtu.edu/blog/wp-content/themes/k2cleaner/styles/head.png
http://jjwester.resnet.mtu.edu/blog/wp-content/themes/k2cleaner/styles/bgt.png

It looks..."interesting" in IE, and it doesn't look exactly like what you're going for, but it's a shove in the right direction.

[jwvanderbeck]

Pretty darn close in Firefox. Awesome.

Really bad in IE though :( Why can't things ever be easy. Well like you said at least its a starting point. The theme i'm using right now looks almsot identical in Firefox and IE though so I know its possible.

Gotta just keep plugging I guess.

Thanks for the help!

http://john.vanderbeck.us/cookie.gif

[XIII]

Could be a mess because he left out the IE only thingies like _width.
Just check out the K2 stylesheet and where there's a _ attribute copy it over to the new one by John and make it match the non _ value.