I know. I said I wouldn’t be changing the design again for a long, long time. What can I say? I lied. Plus, as I mentioned the other day, I’ve been seeing these themes around that have been tickling my fancy (design wise, you sickos). I’m rather proud of myself because it took me a while to find an existing theme that was anywhere close to what I wanted. Even then, I had to make some significant changes and additions to get things “just so”. Of course, this makes it sound like I worked and slaved for weeks on end when it really only took about two days. But… whatever.
I found I had a hard time giving up the three column thing. And no one was more surprised than I was that I didn’t have to give it up. Yippee! This way, I can have my ads and goofy stuff in the righthand column and the more site-specific stuff on the left. And let’s not forget the bottom columns. Yep, that was something I definitely wanted to implement (that I have actually had before in the past): a bottom sidebarish sort of thing. Down there you can find the recent comments, the list of dedicated commenters and popular posts. Wee!
Also loving: the random flicker banner up under the title graphic. I still have my regular flickr feed down in the footer, but this way we get a good sampling of some of the pics that might be a little long in the tooth.
Also (wanting to toot my own horn here), I’m totally enamored with widgets and I widgetized EVERYTHING. The theme came with the sidebars widgetized (though backwards for some reason… huh? the left was the right and the right was the left. gah) but as there was no footer sidebar section, I had to add that in and then widgetize it all myself. I did it and no one got hurt in the process. So, pats on the back for me!
I know a lot of this is probably technical gobblety gook to a great many of you, but regardless, I hope you enjoy the end product. I’m worried it’s taking a while to load, so let me know if you have any problems with that. There are probably some things I need to fiddle with yet, so if you see something I may have missed, let me know. But most of all, you gotta tell me: Do you love it? Cuz I think I kinda do.
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