(This is going to be one of those nerdy self-referential posts where I write about this blog, as opposed to writing about something truly interesting. You might want to skip it.)
As a dedicated WordPress user, this is where I’m supposed to mention kindly this new theme that now frames my blog. In particular, this one is based on Misty Look, a theme created by Sadish Bala(subramanian).
However, I couldn’t leave well enough alone.
So I expanded the width of the container, tweaked the colors, changed the way posts handle images and did some judicious copying and pasting in the stylesheet to double the number of side-columns. One column is never enough, in my humble opinion. Of course, this only served to make the seemingly convenient Widgets functionality null-and-void, but until the Widgets become far more customizable, I’m not going to be using them.
(Hmm. Customizable Widgets might actually be defeating the drag-and-drop convenience of the feature in the first place. Oh, well. Let it be. After all, the stated point of Widgets is that “they’re just things you can use to personalize your WordPress site without knowing HTML.”)
But the funny thing is, this post only matters right now. In a few months, I’ll change the theme again and any references to behavior and design will lose their relevance. But in this moment, I like the placement of the Search function, as well as how my blog is no longer so dependent on a visitor’s screen resolution to be seen clearly and completely.
Of course, I’ve yet to test this newness in Internet Explorer. It might look absolutely hideous.
