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Site Change

I have just updated this site with a new theme which I made myself. It’s heavily inspired by Openswitchs’ theme of about six months ago which he moved on from pretty quickly but I really loved. I however saw similar designs by Extralogical, eightface, and binarybonsai all which have in some part inspired me to go to a single column layout.

This being a blog its really about the content and writing and I hope the new theme will help focus everyone on that, well me at least.  The format should help me also make asides in a better way and differentiate between shorter link posts and proper articles. The sidebars are at the bottom with a thinner one for shorter lists and wider one for text and longer more structured lists.

Also I wanted to have a go and do a little CSS, I also got pulled into some PHP as well, and it made me realise how much like a building a webpage can be, I could go off on one with a debate about structure/decoration compared to php/css rant but I’ll refrain from proving to you all my own madness.

The Design is called Rorschach, for a few reasons, and it’s a Sandbox theme with a couple of tweaks. It’s unfinished at the moment and comments and single page in particular are legible but not set out that well. Spacing is a bit wonky in explorer, I’ll fix and tweak this over time though and try to clean up the css as I go. So pay a visit to this site, have a poke around and please tell me what you think.

Some sandbox Resources:

  • Check out op111.net for a great starter on how to choose your minimalist design.
  • Plaintxt of course for THE sandbox.
  • Themeshaper the blog is a great resource and Thematic should be on everyones shortlist for a theme.

Phew! this monkey has been on my shoulder for a while, glad that’s out of the way. Oh and thanks to kickflop for the php code for the date alteration and everyone on the sandbox forum.

Changing Themes

I’m changing the theme of lewism because I wanted a change and to freshen up the look of the site a bit having been using the fauna theme since I moved to wordpress. Also I want to be able to change the look of the site a little bit easier and that means using the excellent sandbox so I can learn a little css but not have to mess with any php. I’ll start with a small mod of Will’s moopoint style which is my favourite skin for the sandbox, and we’ll see how it goes from there. If you are reading from a rss feed swing over and take a look and tell me what you think.