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I’ve been trying WordPress themes again. I like the excerpt feature for the front/home page of the old BizzArt and the new Chateau. But the DigitalNature theme had no sidebars/one column views and my time stamps. I am also preparing to delete one private weblog next month and to export my current work into a stand-by weblog. I got tired of the creepy spooks coming out of the wood works.
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I’m trying the “recently added” WordPress.com theme: Vertigo by Matthew Buchanan.
It’s a dark theme. The colors are mostly black and red. You will notice three little pointy, devil’s tail to the capital letter “G”, forming what appears to be the number “666” in my weblog site title. That’s how I like it: evil, much like my blog — mostly negative.
Of course I still prefer my time stamp. But I noticed the order of my weblog posts differ! My cellphone is set to Pacific Time; while my weblog is set to Universal Time. So that pisses me off! If only there only ONE time, then I have no need for time stamps!!!
Sheer madness, I say! After burning myself out trying to complete my Lenten Season project, I’m back to blogging, just to “cool down” a bit. As a result, I’m switching WordPress.com themes to keep from “being bored again”. The current one is Theme: INove by NeoEase.
I’ve left out the widgets from the sidebar and allowed the theme’s “hard code” take care of that element because this is the only WordPress.com theme that allows for a “Random Post” widget. Also, my “Custom Menu” for the top/global navigation bar now shows only two obvious selections: Post and Pages. Everything else is eye-candy.
Why can’t we just have drop-and-drag hard codes, like Blogger.com (aka BlogSpot.com)? Is that too much to ask? I guess so.
For example:
My Blog Title Here
By FLYNN on 20110412 at 06:42:00 AM UTC
Last edited by FLYNN on 20110413 at 06:44:27 AM UTC
[Links for “share”, “likes”, “comments” and “edit” can go here.][Text goes here: Blah, blah, blah!]
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That’s all I wanted! I don’t need fancy elements or appearance. I want a WordPress.com theme that can be “stable” for older internet versions as well as for different screen resolutions!
Make one work for me, now!
Ah! Heck! I switched WordPress.com themes again! I like the bigger fonts and buff-colored background of Theme: Liquorice by Nudge Design. What I didn’t like about this theme is the lack of my precious TIME stamps! Also noticeably were the double-lines underneath the “Site Title”: The lines were too close to the lower-case letter “g” and as a result, I made the letters upper-case, giving the appearance of triple-digit number of “666” That’s right! This weblog is now supposed to appear satanic (or a “psy-ops” using the term “Alternative” as part of my “Tagline” to describe my Illuminati-sponsored schemes.”
I’m trying the latest WordPress.com theme “The Morning After”, which reminded me of morning sickness. Of course, now that I’m over the hill, I’ll never have to worry about that queasy feeling ever! Why? Because I’m childless! Anyway, I’ve left the widgets to its default setting; so the appearance of these widgets will look different between “page” and “post” views. The “Header Links” look clean with a wider search form and five links: home, about, archives, subscribe and contact.
Ugh! I cannot figure out how to view multiple blogs in the index pages. I see now that I have to click the sidebar widget called “Archives”.
I’m trying the newest WordPress.com: “Liquorice by Nudge Design”. So far, with the large font size and “Georgia” font style and with my favorite color scheme of parchment brown with complementary colors of red ocre and blue foam, reading is easier on the eyes. One cannot miss the humongous font size of the blockquotes!
The content is ideally located to the left of the sidebar, which has a simple default of only two widgets — a search form and blogroll links alphabetically sorted. As for the top navigation bag, I like how the thin borders gives a recessed appearance in 3-D. And the simple, the better: the “custom menu” used for my weblog is similar to the display version on mobile browsers of old cellphones: Archives, Pages and Blog, which I deliberately set as a “page” instead of as a front page of the latest post entries.
Today, I’m trying the newest WordPress.com Theme: Choco by .css{mayo}. There are three colors: brown/orange (default); gray/yellow; and black/red. I’m using the default color. It’s a fixed width and the contents are to the left of the side to the right. There is no TIME stamp for my weblog. And the images are aligned to the left.
Out of frustration and boredom again, I switched WordPress.com themes from Sandbox 1.6.2 to Steira by Made by Elephant, which as my Mosque Blue color scheme of basic gray, white and blue.
That night, I was typing the EW website address but entered .net. What I saw was a mostly purple and blue site with a service for “healing” the suckers, err, I meant seekers of alternative health solutions for mind, body and spirit. Of course, anything purple and pink denote some sort of New Age movement, much like my bowels and certain books that ring true to me of love and light.
I like the VERY simplistic site: contents on the left and sidebar on the right. There were few pages. And compared to that site, mine is a monster. By rendering my front page as a static page, readership via the seach engines online will be reduced. Again, I prefer the static page layouts. But since the themes are limited as far as hard coding, I really would have preferred the TIME stamps for the blog portion of my site.
Once again, I’ve been switching my WordPress.com themes. As per one of three recommendation from one of the support members, I’m trying the default 2010 theme. It’s supposed to be good for those whose computers and internet connections are slow.
My former commentator said she like this theme and uses it for one of her blogs for her DJ gigs. I like this theme because it’s got the “path.jpg” image for the header and compliments my recently purchased domain name: “thebloggingpath.com”.
Plus, the fonts are big enough to fill the screen and that makes reading easier for those with myopic visions. Forget the single sidebar to the right of the content! I’ve made use of the bottom/footer bars of four!
So far it looks fine until I find another theme here. Earlier today at work, I tried the new “Duster” theme by team Automattic but I couldn’t figure out how that one sidebar widget worked.
I’ve switched WordPress.com themes again: It’s “Sandbox 0.6.1”. Will I keep this theme? Nope! I get easily bored and never could be satisfied.
A “sticky post” – “Howdy!” – features moi firing a military rifle and right below this YouTube video is the introduction, which used to appear in the “Gravatar widget”. The “Gravatar profile” can be viewed as a mouse/hover over via the “Recent comments widget” located in the sidebar.
Three new images appear in the sidebar: Archives, Links and Dorkboy. I had to remove the redundant widgets to make my weblog “shorter” and easier to load up for slower connections. And since this theme features templates for “Archives” and “Links”, the plain-looking buttons of gray color shouldn’t be hard to overlook.
The sea foam colors of light blues and hot pinks are made possible by tweaking my paid CSS upgrade. The sticky post looks like are larger widget when the visibility of the “entry-meta” and “entry-date” elements are hidden from the front page. I may create another sticky post but I’ve not yet decided on its contents.
Oh! And the readings settings it just one recent post entry per view. I prefer the look of a static page than that of a hierarchical order of post entries. I noticed that the background to the first post is light-brown, tan or buff in color.
I’ve got bored again with my WordPress.com theme. This time I’m trying:
Wu Wei by Jeff Ngan
A clean, minimalist, grid-based theme featuring an alternate dark colour scheme, custom background, and custom header.
Yesterday, the colors were yellow for the background and purple for the header text. The light color scheme was defaulted with font colors of orange and black.
Tonight, the colors are purple for the background and yellow for the header text. The dark color scheme is defaulted with font colors of blue and white.
I’ll keep experimenting with the options. After all, I get easily bored!