
After a long wait… The stable release of Green Park 2 Beta 8 is available for download, including the following improvements:
- Full WordPress 3.5.x support
- HTML5 & CSS3 enhancements
- WordPress 3 comment_form fixes
- SEO: Breadcrumbs for Google SERPs
- WordPress menu support
- 25% less HTTP requests
- Fully tested against the theme optimizer
- Comes with localizations for 16 languages
- Removal of Internet Explorer 6 support – Kind of a feature…
- On the way to become the fastest WordPress theme
Test-drive the Green Park 2 theme:
Like it?
Great :) Then don’t forget to leave your feedback in the comments! And if you’d like to show even more love for the theme, I’d be delighted to get a fresh brewed delicious coffee – mmmm delicious :)
BTW: Thanks for waiting and supporting the development of CGP2 for so long!
After my latest CSS3 experiment without images (Internet Explorer Pure CSS Logo), a friend suggested to create an animated 3D Super Mario Icon based on the 3D Retro Mario GIF image by Cezkid.
Well, this is the result of two weeks of work – an animated 3D Super Mario Icon built completely in CSS3 without images.

A still from Safari 5 with perspective and grids. Hover over the live demo to see this.
Demo
Demo: Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon
Best viewed with Safari 5 & Chrome 9.
Chrome prior Version 9 renders in 2D only due to an older Webkit engine.
Opera 10.6, Firefox 3.6 and IE9 are not supported.

Background
Please note that the source code is still a mess. You better not have a look at it ;-)
It’s based on top of my CSS 4D Framework I created therefor and will be released in the next few weeks (when it’s out of alpha).
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When I stumbled over David Desandro’s Opera CSS Logo and Zander Martineau’s Pure CSS Icons, I really liked their idea to create “art” only with CSS.
So here is my work, the All CSS Internet Explorer Logo, a logo built completely in CSS, without any graphics.

See the Demo (best viewed with Firefox 3.6 & Safari 5)
Chrome 5 has a lot of issues at the moment due to an older Webkit engine. CSS for Opera 10.6 and IE9 are coming soon. The CSS is a mess at the moment, I’ll clean it up later.

Internet Explorer & the Internet Explorer Logo are registered Trademarks of Microsoft. Download Internet Explorer.
Facebook recently announced the take-over of the internet with the introduction of the yet infamous “like”-button. Nevertheless, here is how you can add your own dynamic like-button for WordPress.
If you use Facebook’s generator here, you’ll get some content very similar to mine:
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