New Site Theme
April 20th, 2009
Digg had a link to 40 Stylish, Minimal, and Clean Free Wordpress Themes. I started looking around and there were a few I liked. I tend to go in phases, and I’m currently in a bit of a “cram as much on the site as possible” phase, so I’m looking for something clean. I’m also in the mood for a dark background site, so I decided to give the Emire theme a shot.
One of the coolest parts about the themes (and the fact that I run the web server that hosts the site) is that I have access to the theme code to dork around with it. So immediately, I started hacking away at what I didn’t like. I gave myself a whopping 750px for the blog content, which is a very welcome change of real estate after a few iterations of claustrophobic themes.
The other big change was widget-izing the sidebar. I’m not sure why more themes don’t use Wordpress widgets. They’ve been around for a while, are very easy to use, and let me easily play around with the sidebar content from the Wordpress admin pages.
Add in some font changes and adopting the <pre> formatting from my old theme (which was originally stolen from zeusville in the first place… which I’m told came from Wordpress itself… and so on) and I’m at least happy enough to leave it like this for a bit. I’m not in love with having green again, so I might change around the secondary color, but I’ll let it sink in as it stands now before I go much further.
Let me know if there are any rendering issues, which would likely be due to me half-assedly flying around the theme code deleting stuff.
Dad
April 21st, 2009 at 6:00 am
Like the new theme… really like the widget-ized sidebar… olive green text on black background hard on the eyes for us “old folks”… missing facebook link (intentional?)
Professor Jay
April 21st, 2009 at 7:58 am
Ya, the facebook reference was never actually a link. And I’m growing pretty bored with facebook, so I figured I’d take it off. Then again, I’m losing interest in Twitter too, so not sure how much longer that link will be up there.