I’m sorry, folks: But I got bored with the ‘Digg 3’ theme already because it is lacking some of my viewing essentials to make me a happy blogger. As a result, I am currently trying out the ‘Chaos Theory’, which is mostly dark and black. Besides the deeper colors being hard on my eyes, I like the bottom widgets of two equidistant columns.
These columns allow the extra space I needed in order to view each line item within each widget clearly. And unlike the basic two column themes, which have narrower columns, there are no more annoying word wraps to the next lines. Plus, the unordered list items are differentiated by these nice circles, especially for both the RSS widget and Text widget.
For example, my ‘copyright’ widget can now be read in one line. My preferred located is at the bottom most section of the left sidebar. This piece of information appears at anytime in case I forget to publish my ‘copyright’ information for each entry. Some themes don’t have the bottom widgets, which seem to disappear when only one post is viewed.
When doing general searches within my blogs, I’d like to see the full blog entries as well as the post information. This current theme allows me to see the blog entries in its entirety to the right side of the page and the post information to the left somewhere towards the beginning of each entry. The ‘time’ stamp appears for both ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’.
Although the font size for the widgets and post information is quite small, the text color of blue against the black background has a cooling effect for reading. The font size, font type and font color for the body of my blogs appears ‘normal’ enough to read. The articles can be read without the distraction of those left and right sidebars getting in the way.
Unfortunately, there are still some drawbacks. I want my ‘Custom Header’ of a white cloud formation against clear blue skies somewhere towards the top. Furthermore, the space in between each < p > tag is too close together to read. Now, I’d have to use the right scrollbar and the offending mouse more often than my keyboard in order scroll down faster.
Anyway, this is my new theme for now and I know this won’t last long either. The point is that no matter what the appearance of any new skin a blog may take on, the contents will pretty much remain the same.
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