I’ve needed a few diversions away from worrying about our forthcoming wedding (I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help it, so many people coming so far, for us, it’s difficult not to), so the last day or two I’ve been doing a few purely geeky things, some of which are long overdue.
Most obviously, you’ll see I’ve changed the look and feel of the website. I’ve switched to using a customised two column version of the Sandpress theme, which is built on top of Sandbox. Sandpress won last years competition (authors website here), and I like it’s clarity and simplicity. It also feels a lot ‘fresher’ than my previous theme, and makes it a bit clearer to see the new posts, comments and so forth.
I’m not a CSS guru by any stretch, so there are a few clunky things still in need of resolving, not least the comments form, sidebar, top navigation, as well as the behaviour of a few plugins in the new theme (Paged comments in particular, so I’m trying to get hold of a version of that for sandbox, rather than reworking it myself)
I’ve also upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 (I rather like the new admin interface), and refreshed a few of the plugins that work behind the scenes to take care of certain things.
I’d appreciate any comments, particularly around what you think of the new theme. There’s a nice preview, so you can see how it should look, and compare it to the other themes from last years competition.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I like it! It looks really smart. Can you make your homepage a bit lighter too? Or can I save your blog page as a favourite (don’t get too big headed over this) without having to go through your (to me) awful black homepage?
April 8th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I like this, its easier for old eyes to read.
I dislike black backgrounds and white print - I suppose its a hangover from blackboards at school, but I do find it difficult on the eyes. So if you can do what Janet asks - yippee - although I do like the running banner at the bottom.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I e-mailed Janet directly, but figured it’s worth putting up for all. Yes, I’m planning on incorporating the main landing page to fit with this scheme, but not just yet. A few other priorities!
In the meantime, bookmarking http://www.leyton.org/diary brings you straight here, as does using the feed/subscription options - see the sidebar
Try: http://feeds.feedburner.com/leyton/diary/feed
Or: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1629511&loc=en_US
for starters
r.