Feb 24 2008
Testing New Theme
For a little while, I played around with a new theme. I doubt anybody saw it, but I like the overall look of it. It took quite a lot of customizing. One of the problems is the site has a lot of pages (my OLD episode reviews), and those all showed up as links. That was quite a mess.
Unlike most of the themes I’ve tried, it used a logo. I’m not usually a fan of these due to my lack of graphics design skills. So if anybody wants to customize the logo and email it to me, I’d appreciate it. Otherwise, I think I’ll stick with the current theme.
One of the other problems I ran into deals with CSS. Unfortunately, the align right commands for images, for instance, are different from one theme to the other. So if I were to switch, I’d have to edit all of the posts which use those old commands. What an incredibly big pain in the ass that would be.
Aside from looking for a new theme, which admittedly isn’t high on my priority list, I’m looking to eventually replace the default emoticons pack WordPress ships with. I frankly have a hard time to believe they couldn’t get somebody to design something new for the distribution with WordPress. I would think somebody would be willing to do it for free, just to have the joy of seeing his/her emoticons on everybody’s blog. After all, WordPress is used everywhere.