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  • 20120214-Trying Theme

    Since the “Infinite Scroll” was implemented for both Twenty-Ten and Twenty-Eleven, I took that as a sign to try new themes! So this time it is:

    “Retro-fitted by Justin Tadlock

    Subtle textures are mixed with clean lines and shadows to create a beautifully balanced composition perfect for all types of blogs. Read more about Retro-fitted →“

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    I like this theme because the muted colors of red, white, blue and beige are easy on the eyes and similar to the colors in the “Luscious” theme. The “Georgia” fonts are normal and easy to read with bold bold titles and headers and are balanced appropriately for the contents and the sidebar, where widgets are boxed separately to give emphasis to each it. The unlisted order is indented and spaced nicely and are set off with square boxes. Of course, I get to see my time-stamp, located to the right of the author’s name.

  • 20120211-Trying Theme

    As a personal protest to a recent feature (called an “infinite scroll”) added on two WP.com themes (Twenty-Ten and Twenty-Eleven), I’ve switched theme! That’s right! This time I’m trying:

    Suburbia by WPShower

    Suburbia is a unique magazine theme in a minimalistic style. Designed by WPShower. It features five widget areas, custom header, and custom background. Read more about Suburbia →

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    It’s worse than my previous WordPress.com theme: Twenty-Eleven. With Suburbia, readers are FORCED to click on the post, which is viewed an “excerpt” from the “front/home” page. Further, there are only four widgets on the bottom bars to keep the page free of “clutter”. In this way, readers are FORCED to focus on boring links. The “primary” sidebar only has three widgets: Search, Gravatar and Meta. The only compromise is my time stamp, which is missing. So I’ll keep looking for my ideal WordPress.com theme.

  • 20111209-Trying Theme

    Prior to midnight, I purchased a $45.00 Premium Theme. I like it because it’s got my Genesis stuff and mostly pink colors. That’s all until 30 days for a full refund (if NOT completely satisfied). I can NOT improve my personal blog other than to change it’s layout and appearance. The content is as my new tagline says: “Mostly Rants and Other Stuff”.

    Luscious by StudioPress

    Luscious is super-clean, lip-smacking theme designed for bloggers and publishers who want to frame their work in professional fashion. Read more about Luscious →

    Options: Widgets | Menus | Theme Options | Background | Header | Custom Design | Mobile | iPadTags: custom-background, custom-header, featured-images, two-columns, artistic, bright, brown, colorful, contemporary, craft, custom-menu, design, fixed-width, full-width-template, handcrafted, journal, left-sidebar, modern, one-column, orange, pink, playful, purple, right-sidebar, scrapbooking, sticky-post, three-columns, vibrant, white

    Support Need some help? Visit the Premium Themes support forum to get expert advice.

    Luscious by StudioPress

    Luscious is super-clean, lip-smacking theme designed for bloggers and publishers who want to frame their work in professional fashion. Read more about Luscious →

    Options: Widgets | Menus | Theme Options | Background | Header | Custom Design | Mobile | iPadTags: custom-background, custom-header, featured-images, two-columns, artistic, bright, brown, colorful, contemporary, craft, custom-menu, design, fixed-width, full-width-template, handcrafted, journal, left-sidebar, modern, one-column, orange, pink, playful, purple, right-sidebar, scrapbooking, sticky-post, three-columns, vibrant, white

    Support Need some help? Visit the Premium Themes support forum to get expert advice.

  • 20111119-Trying Theme

    A few days ago, I kept switching themes. And tonight, I noticed something changed about an old theme:

    Blix by Sebastian Schmieg

    A tried and true two-column theme with widgets and a customizable header. Read more about Blix →

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    It has time stamps hard coded into both the “index page” views and “single page” views! Wow! I like how the index page doesn’t have the cluttered look of the tags and categories. Maybe the nice time stamps have been there for a while but I’ve not noticed until a few minutes ago.

  • 20111110-Trying Themes

    This time I trying a new WordPress.com theme:

    Bouquet by Automattic

    Bouquet is an elegant, simple theme inspired by the beauty found in flowers. Notable features include two floral schemes, a responsive layout structure that adapts to smaller devices, a right sidebar, a full-width template, support for post formats, custom background, and custom header. Read more about Bouquet →

    Tags: blog, craft, journal, nature, outdoors, photoblogging, photography, clean, curved, earthy, flowery, natural, outdoorsy, simple, sophisticated, blue, pink, white, light, one-column, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-width, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, full-width-template, post-formats, rtl-language-support, translation-ready

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    There are two theme options of flowery header images: Pink Dogwood a default in pink and Forget-Me-Not in blue. There is only one sidebar widget, which I won’t use for now because my “Hello Word” page, which is a “Sticky Post” will serve as the “Table of Contents” or a “Sitemap” and provides the “Archives” and “Subscription” links, too. Only five of the most recent posts are displayed. The width of the contents auto-fits for smaller screen resolutions, which reveals a time-stamp from the hover over the date.

  • 20111013-Trying Theme

    So for the past few minutes and while I was busy deleting more pages, I received this message:

    Howdy! Your current theme, Dusk, has seen an update in the form of a brand new theme, Dusk To Dawn. For more information, check out our blog post introducing Dusk To Dawn to the world.

    I’ll try it later.

  • 20111001-Trying Theme

    Here I go again. I’m trying the Steira theme and have only three main menus:

    • » Posts (Nom-Noms by Evil Kitty);
    • » Pages (Table of Contentments) and
    • » Archives (Ancient Archives of OLD posts).

    And so now the “front/home” page is the latest entries (or Posts) instead of the “Contents” page.

  • 20110905-Trying Theme

    For 30-days, I am trying a “Premium Theme”

    Minimum by StudioPress

    Minimum is a stunning execution of “less is more”, which allows you to express everything you’re about, with very little effort. Read more about Minimum →

    Options: Widgets | Menus | Theme Options | Background | Header | Custom Design | iPad | ExtrasTags: black, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, featured-images, fixed-width, gray, left-sidebar, one-column, right-sidebar, sticky-post, theme-options, threaded-comments, three-columns, translation-ready, two-columns, white

    Support Need some help? Visit the Premium Themes support forum to get expert advice.

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    I love the “Theme Options” (or Genesis – Theme Settings via “themes.php?page=genesis”). It’s got five sections:

    Default Layout

    • Content-Sidebar
    • Sidebar-Content
    • Content-Sidebar-Sidebar
    • Sidebar-Sidebar-Content
    • Sidebar-Content-Sidebar
    • Full Width Content

    Navigation Settings

    • Primary Navigation
    • Include Primary Navigation Menu?
    • Enable Fancy Dropdowns?
    • Enable Extras on Right Side?
    • Display the following:
    • Today’s Date
    • RSS feed links
    • Search form
    • Twitter link
  • Secondary Navigation
    • Include Secondary Navigation Menu?
    • Enable Fancy Dropdowns?

    In order to use the navigation menus, you must build a custom menu, then assign it to the proper Menu Location.

    Breadcrumbs

    • Enable on:
    • Front | Page | Posts | Pages | Archives | 404 Page

    Breadcrumbs are a great way of letting your visitors find out where they are on your site with just a glance. You can enable/disable them on certain areas of your site.

    Content Archives

    • Select one of the following:
    • Display post content
    • Display post excerpts
  • Include the Featured Image?
  • Image Size:
    • large (1024×1024)
    • medium (300×300)
    • thumbnail (150×150)
    • featured (500×250)
    • portfolio (160×100)
  • Select Post Navigation Technique:
    • Older / Newer
    • Previous / Next
    • Numeric

    These options will affect any blog listings page, including archive, author, blog, category, search, and tag pages.

    Blog Page

    • Display which category:
    • [All categories, etc.]
  • Exclude the following Category IDs: [Comma separated – 1,2,3 for example]
  • Number of Posts to Show: [enter your number here]

    • [Save Settings] [Reset Settings]

    Enable on:

    Front Page Posts Pages Archives 404 PageBreadcrumbs are a great way of letting your visitors find out where they are on your site with just a glance. You can enable/disable them on certain areas of your site.

  • 20110831-Trying Theme

    Well, I’m trying yet another WordPress.com theme:

    Selecta by Obox Design

    With a featured posts slider on the front page, a wide, one-column template on image and video posts, and archives displayed in gallery format, Selecta is well-suited for blogs which focus primarily on showcasing videos or images. It comes with six color schemes, support for video, image, aside, gallery, quote, chat, and audio post formats, custom header, custom background, and four widget areas — one in the left sidebar and three in the footer. Read more about Selecta →

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    It’s good for now.

  • 20110828-Trying Theme

    Well, this time I’m trying Theme: Blix by Sebastian Schmieg. It’s one of my old favorite, even though it doesn’t have the “timestamp” displayed on each post and/or pages. But at least I could view the “source code” and find out how and when my publication occurred.

    And with my paid upgrade for “Custom Design”, I tweaked the CSS stylesheet from its original colors of aqua and lime green (yuch) to its current color of light tan (not the sunburned color on the skin). I center aligned the text for both header and footer. And that’s all I did.”

    I’m still deciding on using my “Get a Discount” towards this “Custom Design” feature before it expires. But I’m so cheap, err, on a budget and again, I could NEVER be satisfied with the appearance and layout of my weblog.

    As mentioned in my old blog(s), I deleted LOTS of old folders, including anything for WordPress.com. I got sick and tired of looking at outdated files, photos, videos and audio that will never be viewed, especially my old stylesheets. I’m not even done scanning old photos and/or its negatives.

    As for “cleaning house” and after waking up from my two hour nap at around 3:00pm, I reluctantly help Maw vacuum, dust and rearrange furnishings downstairs. I really want to dump a whole LOT more but don’t have permission from the home owners! I hated the heat and sweat from the exertions, too Ugh!

  • 20110823-Trying Theme

    Well, this time I’m trying Theme: Toolbox by Automattic. After checking how the deleted post looks like via my subscription “Reader” online, this is how the message looks:

    Well this is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

    It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help.

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    Below this message is a LONG “Search” bar.

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    Below this “Search” bar there are three columns:

    • Recent Posts,
    • Most Used Categories, and
    • Archives – Try looking in the monthly archives. 🙂

    Now, if only I know how the “Post Formats” work and look, I might learn something.

  • 20110812-Trying Theme

    Well, I am trying the Manifest theme again because it has two templates for “Archives” and “Links” and one-column with “contents” element above the “sidebar” element below. However the fonts look too small. So I will keep looking for my ideal weblog without using the upgrade for CSS stylesheets.

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