A new theme…
September 23rd, 2008I am not sure if this is temporary or permanent, I’ll see what kind of feedback I get. The old theme had a couple depreciated WordPress tags that I didn’t realize needed updated until I did a little digging yesterday. Once in a while I’d get a “Not Found” message on my homepage, but I didn’t realize that it was occurring for other people and had no way around until yesterday. I updated the offending tags (that I could find with my poor coding skills) but it didn’t seem to fix the problem on the various machines we have around here. So, I threw on a different theme (called Foliage) in case the old one had problems I couldn’t find. This also did not seem to fix the problem, but I ran out of time and motivation, work had caught back up with me at that point…
Anyway, I like this theme a lot, but it has a few issues. It does something weird with the CSS that I can’t figure out that scales the entire page rather than just sets the font sizes. I increased the font size, and it widens the body? Why not just define them both independently? Anyway, I can’t figure out how to change it yet. You can hold down the Ctrl key and scroll up/down with your middle mouse button to change font size. I adjusted the default font size from 62.5% to 75% after editing the .css, and it now renders pretty nice on 800 pixel width monitors, although on my Firefox/Ubuntu setup the images don’t render very nicely with the font size adjusting the entire width. This does not seem to cause a problem with browsers on Windows platforms. Also, note that there is a number to the right of the post title and post date that if you click shows you the comments for an entry. I do like the way it displays comments along side…
Finally, all of my blog-bling is gone. I don’t know what to do about that. I may stick it all on it’s own page. For a long time now I’ve wanted to completely re-vamp the way all of this shit worked. I want garrettsocling.com to be a personal landing page for me, and my domain pollywogsblog.com to be my personal blog (only loosely associated, so that you actually have to dig a little before you equate a baseball bat up John McCain’s ass with Garrett Socling). Perhaps this will be motivation for me to get my butt in gear. This theme would be idea for my personal page, and the Painted Desert theme would be ideal for my Pollywogs. We’ll see if I ever find the motivation…
I rethemed my laptop as well. I had been using a custom theme I composed out of Clearlooks-DarkLime, Buff icons and a few other choices, but I recently switched to this Dust Ubuntu theme, which I like a lot (primarily because now I can read the popup menu when using ThunderBird!). I went with Rodent icons as they are very clean and modern looking, as well as some background I found somewhere. Here’s a before and after:
Old:
New:
I like them both but I find the old style to be more relaxing (red = angry).
Sorry Garrett, I liked the old theme better too but agree that everyone needs a change now and then…
I don’t like it.
Maybe if you toy with it and make some changes…
Read, scroll down, read, scroll down… where’s the blogbling.
Colors are fine just don’t like the way it looks, layout, interaction.
I miss the bling as well. Not that I need to know, but I think it adds or says a lot about who you are and what you believe in.
The people have spoken! So let it be written, so let it be done.
Ok, now I’m just fucking with you guys. Let me know what you think of this theme. I haven’t added my blog-bling to this one in case it gets universally panned as well ;)
I like the other one better…if you can add the bling to it, if not then I guess this will do.
Don’t get me wrong, if you want to change your blog so be it.
I felt the other were bland, dull, boring. Nothing to catch my eye. Read, scroll down, read, scroll down, read, scroll down…
no no no, the people have spoken, their will be done. I’ve heard the voices loud and clear…
I like the red myself.