Believe it or not, I’m still using the recently added WordPress.com theme: Pilcrow, which rhymes with “PressRow”. Under the “Theme Options”, I’ve selected a default color scheme of “Light”, which is a basic white background with black fonts and blue links. For the default layout, I chose “Full-Width, No Sidebar”. That means there are no distracting widgets.
To further “force” this WordPress.com weblog into submission as a website, I’ve set a static page of “Howdy!” as my “Front page” and nothing (or — Select — ) as my “Posts page”, meaning I’ve reduced the chance of online search engines from picking up my latest/recent posts entries. Only the smart ones would dare subscribe to my syndicated RSS feeds, which is shown as excerpts (or summary) instead of full text because I’m a cruel person.
Again, I prefer people clicking around my site and ACTUALLY reading the pages rather than just reading the posts. To simplify the top navigation bar, I’ve only customize three links: Home, Pages and Posts! It shouldn’t be hard to differentiate static pages from most recent posts. How cool is that?
After reading an EY article about his website not taking on a more “professional” look since 1996, I was inspired to remove my sidebar widgets of clutter. Actually, I just got bored looking at all those sidebar “Image widget”, which slows down the pages from loading up faster for those with slower internet connections.
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