I’ve been playing around with the theme to my blogsite since last night and in part to being, well, dissatisfied with the overall layout. I tried pasting my modified ‘CSS sheet’ under the ‘Presentation’ section of this blogsite without success due to some glitch in the system while ‘previewing’ my changes last night. As a result, I had to find a default theme that would suit my needs.
First I wanted to get the ‘Blogroll’ somewhere near the top so readers could actually click on those links — mostly orgonite related sites. The blogroll is in alphabetically order so I wanted to make sure the last item on the list got a fair shot at review. Also near the top and to the left, I wanted the following: ‘Search’, ‘Blog Stats’ and ‘Meta’ for my convenience.
Second was the ‘Widgets’ and I kept redoing the different columns layouts — 1, 2, 3 and 4. None of these column layouts seemed correct because one was too minimal, two was common and too long mostly on the right side, three was perfect and the four column version had one theme where the font size was too small. I liked adding the ‘Customize Header’ with one of my favorite photos but I didn’t see this feature in my current, three column theme.
Third I had to get the right color combination to the column layouts along with the readability of the font. I wanted the larger font size for us myopic, eyeglass wearing individuals. Some colors were too dark and I felt depressed. I chose a lighter color to keep me awake. I tried to gauge the reaction of the readers based on how I felt about the new theme.
So there you have the current theme — a nice three column layout with some gray to blue, like previous color scheme. The fonts are large enough to read and I’ve gotten the more important elements towards the top. I’ve also managed to edit one ‘Page’, which had a ‘Page Order’ out of sequence. So now my ‘Navigation Page’ looks more organized.
I forgot to check if the copying of my articles is pasted nicely. This is how I archive — to include any tags, categories, date stamps, comments and of course the weblinks. But this new theme will have to do for now. I don’t know how long I will be satisfied with this one but I’ll try for one year, if possible.
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