Oh no where has the styling gone
Mroth was asking me about minimalistic blog themes today, and I linked him to a few I had seen linked a while ago at http://www.plaintxt.org/. I was looking at them and then thinking of my own dark blue scheme and broken flickr badge when I decided I wanted to make my own custom theme again. It’s been quite a while since I did this and I was pretty rusty at WordPress templating. Thanks to the impressive documentation at the WP Codex I was able to get back up to speed pretty quickly.
After being linked (again by mroth) to an article on http://evhead.com/ I was inspired to take his modification of the Flickr-style “all the shit is at the bottom” design and then corrupt it further into the abomination you see at the bottom of each page. Really most of that stuff is used about never by most people, so I don’t think it’s much of a loss. The Flickr badge is a bit of a riff on what Veerle did. I just simplified it a bit because styling is difficult and my artistic sense is about as close to zero as possible.
This theme is really basic but it appeals to me in some way. Part of the benefit of going so barebones is that it looks exactly the same in IE and Firefox without me doing any extra work! Massive thanks go out to the YUI team at Yahoo!, their reset and font styles are a huge help when designing this kind of thing.
Dragonforce concert was insane, highly recommended.
September 10th, 2006 Comments Off
