I just wanted to take a moment to let all of you know that another blog split is coming.
Once the site is up and redirects are in place I will unveil it!
Well, here it is, my new theme.
It still has a few wrinkles in it but I was ready for something new. This is a learning experience for me as this is the first theme I have designed. There are some things I like about this theme and some things I do not.
Over the course of the month of September I will make a few more modifications and either keep it or create something different.
The main goal I had in mind with the new theme was to get away from the limitations of my previous narrow theme. sometimes I had images in my posts that just needed a little bit more room, this theme allows for that.
I also wanted to try out using rounded corners with CSS rather than images and javascript. The rounded corners you see on this site are 100% CSS based.
So, take a look around and leave some constructive criticism in the comments.
Notes on the pending theme change
A few days ago I wrote about my desire to put a new face on this blog. I am in the middle of designing a new wordpress theme just for me and I'd like to tell you a few things about it before I change over.
One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to WordPress blogs is the amount of whitespace I see. Look below the sidebar and what do you see? Nothing! That waste of space annoys me to no end. My new theme will fix that problem.
The Footer is an often overlooked part of a blog. I intend to put my footer to better use than I do now. I will likely use it to show off things that the dedicated reader is looking for but the casual reader is not. The way I see it the footer can be a good source of real estate for thanking your readers and telling them about popular content on your site. Besides, once you are done reading an article where are you? You are looking at the footer!
Because the majority of my readers use a screen size of 1024x768 or larger I will be moving to a fixed (980 pixels wide) width theme. This will better allow me to use the screen real estate you have and not leave you with tons of whitespace to look at. I'm running even wider than that but I can always bring the sides of my browser in.
I will be bringing in the rounded corners and other Web 2.0 goodness. I'm going to try to do it entirely with CSS but I may have to cheat and use some images. I'm currently trialing some of the rounded corner ideas over on my other blog Cats and their famous owners.
If you have any suggestions or comments feel free to post them below!
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