I’ve changed theme for the first time in over a year. Rob’s new Mandingo theme looked good to me but it did require some customizing that I hadn’t got to till now. I not only liked the clean look but also it was more accommodating for larger screen resolutions. My previous template was best suited for 800×600 which would seem to fit the lowest common denominator approach. Being a hack of a designer, I know I don’t always take accessibility issues into consideration when designing but feel like I should be moving to a larger size site.
I had to configure the header to allow for my random header script. This was easy enough and now there are many options for this. I’m a big fan because it allows me to share and reuse my favourite photos. (Sorry D’arcy no Maui pictures, but if you like golf…) Okay, so it looks like I completely cloned D’arcy’s site, honest I didn’t mean to and I’ll try and figure out a way to make it different. In fairness, although D’arcy’s been lamenting his switch between Drupal and WordPress for a while, I was reading it in my reader and never did visit his site. Likely many reading this in their aggregator may never pop by for a visit and this entire post will seem useless.
My header fonts changes from image to image, does that count as being different? (This is beginning to sound more like a twitter post) Maybe this is how women feel when someone shows up at a party wearing the same dress? I may have to go home and change.
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Normally I do just read posts in my reader, but I wanted to see what you had done. Looks good, Dean.
I love it. I am headed to Florida for a few weeks soon. I was going to leave the clubs at the house since I am visiting family, but now you have inspired me to take them and have my son ride along and hit a putt or two. Not sure that was your desired effect, but what can I say. It has been a long school year.
Dean, I was just kidding! The site looks great! It’s not like I created the theme or anything. I think it’s going to become the new Kubrick or K2, though, because it’s so well designed and flexible.
As a new WordPress user myself, I was eager to see what you’ve done with the place! I like the new digs!! I think with almost all new computers having a “widescreen” of some variety or another, we’re going to see a lot more themes oriented that way. Three-column themes, etc.
I chose the theme for my site specifically for that reason, and while I’m not _completely_ done hacking around with it yet, I’m pretty happy with the way it looks, but I’m not sure if it’s too – I don’t know – stark?
The site looks great!!
— Scott