I’ve done another theme via WordPress.com: This time is ‘Contempt’ by Michael Heilemann. I guess I got bored with the purple background color and opted for the basic white (#FFF) instead. This looks more presentable and cleaner at first glance with gray, purple and some blue without all the different colors floating all over the place from my previous theme ‘Pool’ by Borja Fernandez.
Among the ‘free’ themes available under WordPress.com, ‘Contempt’ for me is by far the easiest to modify with my paid CSS upgrade. It took me only three hours to perfect the layout of mostly borders, fonts, colors and images since we don’t have access to modify the elements.
As usual, I prefer the one column monster at width of 750px (or pixels). This means most of the reading should be done towards the top the browser without the mostly default sidebars located on either side to distract the reading from the content, entry, page, container, wrapper, etc… sections.
Further, I set the font size for the content entries at 1.5em with the ‘titles’ at 2em to accommodate the more myopic individuals. The sidebars, which should be called bottombar for the one column themes, have smaller fonts than prior attempts at trying to make the larger fonts of the post entries match with the fonts in the sidebars.
For a couple of days again, I tried out different themes, including ‘Rounded’ by Ghyslain Armand. This particular theme had rounded corners and colors of brown and lime green. It almost worked out but the navigation bar and its tabs on either side wouldn’t go away. I had a hard time with reducing the size of both the navigation bar and the header towards the topmost part of the browser.
It did have all the category, tag, edit, the date and time stamps for both the pages and posts, including full view for my categories, archives and pages. Unfortunately this current ‘Contempt’ theme lacks these nice date and time stamp features that I’ve been looking for in a theme, which had the navigation bar option at the top, as well as the ‘Tagline’ for my epitaph.
I am hoping this theme will be a keeper. But as expressed in my prior blogs, I’m never satisfied and out of perfection that could never be achieved with the limitation of a free account under WordPress.com. I looked into WordPress.org but I don’t know anything about PHP or SQL and all that jazz. So I’ll stick to the easy stuff here for now.
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