Another day, another theme
Posted on January 27, 2007 @ 2:22 am
Well, the old school Apropos Man theme lasted all of what? Two days? Maybe three? I’ve been thinking about a new design for the past few weeks, and I finally got to work on it a few hours ago. The result should be staring you in the face right now. If not, I’ve broken Wordpress even worse than I thought.
I’ve always wanted to experiment with a single column design, and I think I like how things turned out. You can still find the category listing, search box, and syndication mumbo jumbo down in the footer. As for the archives and blogroll, they’ve moved to their own pages, accessible via the navigation bar up in the header.
As always, I appreciate any feedback — particularly if you find something that isn’t working. I’ve tested the site on Firefox and IE, but I’m sure there are still a few bugs lurking around somewhere.
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Me Likey!!!!
When I click on the blogroll, I am receiving a message that it no longer exists. It is a killer design though.
Thanks, guys!
MC: That was a weird bug, but I think I have it worked out now. Thanks for the heads-up!
very cool. i like it.
Thanks, Pea! I know you were a fan of the classic Apropos Man, but at least it’s not orange anymore, right?
True, true.
But we’ve still got the superhero thing going on so, you know, as the kiddies say, ‘it’s all good.’
This does make me wanna redesign my site though.
That is not so good.
How did you get Claire’s dad to pose for that photo?
Andy: The funny thing is, I can’t remember how I got that photo. Right after I took it, there was this bald Haitian guy…from there, it’s all a blur.
Duuuude, it’s freakin’ awesome.
looks fantastic! Nice work.
I miss Apropos Man.
Also, my link to your site (http://wiw.org/%7Ejess/) doesn’t work any more. I have to change it to http://wiw.org/~jess/. Which I can do, but there may be other people out there with the same problem. Not sure why I have that funky url for you, but I must have gotten it from somewhere.
Awesome! Seems to be working fine with the AOL browser.
Thanks, guys!
Diesel: I removed the custom 404 page, so now any link going to a “%7Ejess” URL should default back to the front page. It’s not a perfect fit for people linking directly to an entry using the “%7E” instead of a ~, but it’s the solution I’ve been using for the past several months and I’ve switched back to it now.
I guess being the last man on earth with a tilde in his URL has its price.
i like the new look, it’s a lot simpler. one column is good, too.
Is there supposed to be something like a picture at the top? All I get is a big white box.
Sigh…still no picture. I’m using IE7, is that it?
Robin: Hmmm…that’s really odd. I’ve tried loading it in Firefox and IE7 and the header image seems to work fine for me. Is anyone else having trouble seeing the title banner?
I am officially in love with the new look. It. Is. AWESOME.
at first you completely threw me for a loop: “what link did i just click?! did i *mean to?!” but i love it. love-love-love it.
Awesome! Brilliant re-design. Now I must go hide my blog in shame…