My new theme
It looks good in Firefox on my Mac and even better (unbelievable I know) on my son’s PC. Because Julia gets all yelling about it, I always keep the same white and the same header and the same general color scheme. But the old theme had some issues:
- No bulleted lists, which made posts like this challenging.
- Problems with navigation so that people couldn’t really dig in the archives.
Also these magazine themes do all kinds of nifty things. Most of those nifty things don’t work with a typical blog (I don’t use the feature box even though I wish I could justify it and I don’t use enough pics although that’s changing starting NOW — at least when I can remember to do it) but I’ve become enamored with custom sidebars for different sections and have been coding a lot of client sites by hand to allow it. This theme lets me do it with widgets so, say, on the Tag archives pages I can list more tags in the sidebar. I’m sure I’ll be messing more with sidebars as I go.
Oh and this theme has widgetized forms below the content, which I can’t really use on the front page but I’m going to mess with on other pages.
Sometimes a really good wordpress theme makes me want to create content to fit the theme just so I can use it with all of its bells and whistles. It’s one reason it’s fun to have clients who have needs way more complicated than my own — I just love to play with Wordpress.
Speaking of clients, I have a blog talk to give tonight for Digital Eve. I need to look at my handout and see if it needs tweaking because it probably does.
Are you using a plugin to manage your archives or is it just part of your theme? My archives are a mess and I would really like to clean them up and make them easier to navigate, but I don’t really know how to go about it.
Amber, I’m using Compact Archives:
http://rmarsh.com/plugins/compact-archives/
I like Clean Archives Reloaded more but my archives are too big and it won’t work.
It’s so pretty! I like it a lot.