Jun 30
Dark Effect Reloaded - Thoughts on My Theme
It’s been a day or two since my new theme has gone up and last night I finally took the time to work out some of the kinks with it. Well - They weren’t so much as kinks as they were customizations I needed to make. The big ones included:
- fixing the order of things as they appeared in my sidebar
- changing how many recent comments and entries appeared in the sidebar
- adding my blog log to the sidebar
- changing the header (I’m not a turtle kind of guy)
- and implementing my tracking code for Analytics and FeedBurner
There are still some smaller things that I would like to implement including adding a dark red theme (amidst the other colors) and of course adding custom headers for the colored themes which you can apparently do too. All in all though, I’m pretty happy with how the new theme is working out. One of the big problems I had with my blog before was that everything seemed to run together. Posts, comments, all of it. Posts were hard to read, and on the comment side, there was no sort of division between the comments and who made them. If you take a look at the comments now, you can see that the ones that I make get a special block to them. Too cool!
As you can tell, I’m very happy with my new theme. It’s much more “lively” than my last one, and the way it organizes everything is pretty sweet and goes with my own tastes for color and layout. Hopefully I won’t end up changing my theme for quite sometime.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:14 am
It seems that your new theme agrees with you. Looks great too.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Thanks Brown like I said, it’s more done than not at this point - and I’m pretty happy with the results.
June 30th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Hey, Bruce Lee! Better than the turtle. :)
I don’t know if this is something you’re working on, but I noticed that the email field in the comments box is black. Only if you were to select that text would you be able to see what you typed.
June 30th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I can tell you like dark colours! It looks great. :)
And like Mark said, your email field in the comments area is black; the email couldn’t be seen.
June 30th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
@Mark & Grace - Seems I’ve stumbled onto something interesting. I’ll let you know when I post about it.
June 30th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
This dark theme is awesome. It is very stylish yet you have not sacrificed ANY readability or usability. A job very well done Bush.
June 30th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
That’s the tag line I should’ve used on my story! - “…have not sacrificed ANY readability or usability”. Would’ve summed it up nicely. And thanks for finding my blog again Greg, it’s been a while since I’ve “seen you round these parts” (#):)
July 5th, 2007 at 6:44 am
i like this theme…is the whole theme is CSS based ..
July 5th, 2007 at 7:08 am
CSS + images with a little JavaScript sprinkled in.