I finally “finished” my theme for this site. I am also releasing it to the world. If you use Wordpress and want your site to look exactly like mine, go download my theme right now! I have done several themes in the past, but this is the only one I’ve ever made for general use and I think it’s the best looking one I’ve ever done. Let me know if you like it and if you find any bugs, send me a note.
So the new theme is finally here. I can tell you right now it needs a lot of tweaking, but it is complete enough to start using it. I’m dissatisfied with the sidebar and the pages, archives, and other stuff were just thrown together this morning. I’ll keep working on it though. I’ve kept it sufficiently generic that I should be able to release it as a theme that anyone can install on their Wordpress blog. You know… when it’s finished.
I’ve got most of the styling done for my new theme. The new theme has a tabbed nav bar and a sidebar that is widget capable. I’m also taking the time to style the default Wordpress widgets that come with WP 2.5 of which I have a beta copy installed on my Macbook. I still have to create templates for pages, singles, comments, etc., so there is still quite a bit of work to be done. I’m also looking at creating some WP plugins as well, but more on that later.
Here’s another screenshot for you to check out.
Please note that I am once again changing the theme of my site. However, instead of doing it offline and then upping all the changes at once, I decided to do it piece-meal. So if you see some weird stuff, consider yourself lucky!
UPDATE: It turns out that Wordpress 2.5 is due out tomorrow (March 10), so this redesign couldn’t come at a better time.
If the site has a bunch of weird borders, please forgive me. I’m messing with the style of the site. I’ll get it fixed eventually.
You may remember that I noted a bug in my site about 50 days ago in this post. Well, I finally tracked down the source of this bug. Apparently Textpattern doesn’t tell Firefox that anything has changed on the site unless I update an article. A certain setting in Textpattern makes it so that Firefox will load from cache if nothing has changed. Since editing the CSS file isn’t considered a change, the changes aren’t reflected unless you clear your Firefox cache, edit an article, or turn off the Send “Last-Modified” header setting in the Textpattern Advanced administration tab. Details of the issue can be found in this Textpattern Forum thread.
I upgraded to the site to Textpattern 4.0.4 today. I was quite impressed with the ease of the upgrade. All you have to do is overwrite all the old Textpattern files and log back into the site (full upgrade details are in the Readme file included in the download). I only noted one bug which I am not quite sure is a bug. When I update my style sheet through Textpattern, the changes are not reflected when I refresh the page in Firefox. It will only load a new style sheet if I clear the cache. That’s a bit annoying, but I’m not sure if it’s a Firefox bug or a Textpattern bug. For the time being I’ve migrated my style sheet to a static file.
You’ll probably also notice that I moved some things around and changed the look a bit. I removed the images at the top of the page and replaced them with text. I also moved the menu bar down and to the left, the header was centered, the content was moved to the right and the Navigation menu was reordered. I left the footer alone.
Finally, I added a Links page for all my linky goodness. There are only a few links there now, but I’m working on more. Check it all out!
Well, here’s an all new site for you. It was created with Textpattern. It’s pretty much the same as all my other sites in that it has no content, but I just wanted to get a whole site going with Textpattern. If you’re shopping around for a simple CMS (Content Management System), it’s a pretty good one.
