Theme Envy.

Administrator — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:02:48 +0000

Although I’m currently enjoying modifying the Wrana/Orth 3CR^[1] theme, I’m running across several that I’m becoming at least equally fond of. There’s Neptune ^[2] by Ben de Groot. He’s got the site set up to implement a neat theme-switch; aside from some minor display bugs I note in Firefox, they seem fabulous.

I’m beginning to run into the same kinds of dilemmas I found when originally designing tcc^[3] ; namely, the fact that themes are made, not born. Design has to grow on you, I think. And, even though there’s usualy a net gain in “gee whiz”, the longer I spend under the hood, the less I like the car.

Thankfully, WP makes it easy to change your mind.

Linknotes:

3CR - again with the footnotes. ↩
and related themes; I especially like Tiny. ↩
tcc - the blog that started it all, is is due for a serious upgrade. ↩

More Excitement.

Administrator — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:49:03 +0000

A little more fiddling here, making adjustments to Clemens Orth’s^[1] nice variation on the Relaxation theme. Lately, adjusting the templates a bit and adding a few enhancements^[2] Nothing major, yet. I always like fortune cookie files too, so I’ve implemented two of them, using the Witty Text plugin from Alex Malov. These will hopefully evolve into:

a rotating list of website mottos, sort of a meta-subtitle
a random quote generator, with somewhat appropriate content

I’ve dedicated some space for them above the main content and atop the sidebar.

Linknotes:

Living on an Island - Orth’s blog of good design. ↩
including, obviously, Jeremy Curry’s linknotes footnote plugin. some comments suggest that relative links will break this code, but we’ll see. ↩

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Theme Envy.

More Excitement.