A Kirby That’s Not Pink

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1. gestroud (3 comments.) says:

   1/8/2010 at 9:42 am

   At first glance, Kirby seems kind of spartan. But when you download it, look under the hood and kick the tires, you’ll find that a lot of thought went into the theme’s design and functionality. Nice work.

   I am curious about the choice of names, though. Is Ian a fan of Durward Kirby (the guy who wanted to sue Bullwinkle) by any chance?
   • Ian Stewart (28 comments.) says:

     1/8/2010 at 9:49 am

     Jack Kirby; iconographer of 20th Century mythology. Also, cartoonist.
     • Ken says:

       1/8/2010 at 11:24 am

       Being 30, and having collected comics, I was supprised that anyone didn’t know Jack Kirby, or would’ve guess anyone else Guess I’m just a geek, lol
     • gestroud says:

       1/8/2010 at 7:25 pm

       I’m glad to say that I learn something new every day. Sorry for my ignorance. I know it’s a lucrative field, but I stopped collecting comic books nearly 4 decades ago.
2. Lars Tong Strömberg (14 comments.) says:

   1/8/2010 at 10:00 am

   I think Ian is spot on with the 3 principles for design of a default theme. As far as the pic can tell, principle 1 is there. As Thematic has a lot of no. 2 and 3 I don´t worry about seeing them fulfilled either.

   Great work!
3. that girl again (41 comments.) says:

   1/8/2010 at 6:27 pm

   It’s a shame that Matt’s personal animosity towards the WP design community prevents him from adopting a community-made theme. It would have been an ideal opportunity to prove that wordpress is still an open-source project and not just another Automattic product.

   Then again, keeping things inhouse does avoid that awkward moment when the designer of your default theme stops using your software…
4. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

   1/8/2010 at 9:28 pm

   yeah, it would be nice to have a better starting point for creating a theme of your own from the default theme then the one thats currently in place.

   I don’t even consider a theme though, unless it uses brothercake’s drag and drop javascript sidebar widgets. I can say thats the only real thing I look for in a theme, other then the colors, and sadly, iTheme by mangoOrange is really the only drag and drop theme I’ve seen in many years.., They really should go back to that, because I don’t even consider looking at a theme without that..

   but yeah I remember Kurby, wasn’t that long ago for us old fokies approaching 40 over here. lol
5. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

   1/8/2010 at 9:31 pm

   what I was just thinking though, as much as can be done with CSS, its too bad brothercake doesn’t come out with a CSS only implementation of drag and drop javascript, because I’m sure it could be done in CSS nowadays. Not that there’s anything wrong with javascript, its just that, javascript on sites takes a long time to load sometimes.