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Welcome to the New Blog Theme

Jim spotted it first of all, for the new year, I decided to switch over the blog themes. While the Hemingway look was nice, and one that I’d seen on other blogs, the additions to it to make sure this blog was more of a hub of things I do overloaded the look. So yes while it was shoe-horned into something else, it never did quite work they way I wanted it (and it never quited worked on IE as well).

But the lessons from using Hemingway gave me enough of an insight to get to where I wanted – a nice clean three column layout, that carries all the info on where I am around the web (the hub concept) and makes sure people looking for me on the web end up (a) here and (b) have enough info to actually get in touch with me.

One of the big helpers in all this was Erik Rasmussen’s Widgetize Anything plug-in, which provides lots of little containers to write snips of PHP code into Wordpress’s plugin system. That’s powering most of the sidebar tweaks you can see. I’m still considering how to do my ‘Web 2.0 Icons’ strip.

The other call is what to do with Del.icio.us links. There’s now a widget showing the live results, but do I also want them showing up as apost every 24 hours, and going down the feed? At the moment, the daily links pages are still posted to the site and go down the RSS feed, but they don;t show up on the front page or ‘recent posts’ section (but are in the archives). Everyone reading this, what would you prefer?

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2 Responses to “Welcome to the New Blog Theme”

  1. Mike Wills on January 3rd, 2008 16:57

    Is this a theme you found or is this something you created? I really like the look.

  2. Ewan Spence on January 3rd, 2008 18:36

    Mike, it’s based on the ‘Modern Paper’ theme by Performacing. The link and byline is in the footer. Once I had chosen that (essentially I knew I wanted a predominantly white based blog, with three columns, and widget support; so off to Google I went) I took the code, hacked the header to get the purple and lego me, and then converted over my RSS powered PHP Widgets and stuff. I’ll continue to tweak over the next ooh months, but that’s what I did.

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