A Dash of Web and Mobile Development » Blog Updates http://blog.iangclifton.com Discussing trends and technologies in web and mobile development Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:15:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New Theme http://blog.iangclifton.com/2011/01/16/new-theme/ http://blog.iangclifton.com/2011/01/16/new-theme/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:32:58 +0000 Ian G. Clifton http://blog.iangclifton.com/?p=378 Continue reading →]]> Despite the appearance of this blog, I am actually rather picky about how it looks. I just don’t have enough free time to spend a day or two making a great WordPress theme. I looked at several different free themes and found too many issues with them, not to mention the problem that many themes were designed for old versions of WordPress. For the past month or two (or three or four?), I’ve had the blog switched back to the “Twenty Ten” theme, which is the default for WordPress 3.x. It’s a decent theme, but I noticed a lot of little things about it that bothered me (e.g., the visited link color).

I decided to make a child theme to Twenty Ten, allowing me to take advantage of a theme that supports widgets, customization, etc. without having to make significant changes. I slowly went through, making tweaks here and there until I decided that I need to work on some other things. There are still plenty of minor changes I’d like to make, but it’s already a lot better than it was. The biggest change is that I gave the blog a lot of the colors from my portfolio site. Rather than blacks and whites, the theme now has browns and blues throughout. I also updated the header image to a photo I took from Mt. Rainier, complete with a hint of lens flair, and put a 1px black border around it.

Here are the before and after screenshots:

]]> http://blog.iangclifton.com/2011/01/16/new-theme/feed/ 0 Blog Is Open http://blog.iangclifton.com/2009/09/13/blog-is-open/ http://blog.iangclifton.com/2009/09/13/blog-is-open/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:58:38 +0000 Ian G. Clifton http://blog.iangclifton.com/?p=47 Continue reading →]]> I’ve just added the DNS info for this blog, so it’s officially open to the world. I have had it up for about a month and a half in order to play around with the theme, plugins, etc. There is always more to do, but I feel like the current setup is fairly solid. I’m sure there will be additional tweaks in the future.

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