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  • 20100901-Trying Theme

    Well, I’m trying another WordPress.com theme. This time it’s:

    Contempt by Michael Heilemann.

    I’ve uploaded the `path.jpg` with a crop of exactly 750 × 140 pixels.

    Notice how the lower letter `h` of the word `Path` covers the walker of the path. Now that’s co-incidence! For that symbolizes someone truly being protected by `white-colored` letters from ABOVE, if you know what I mean for I cannot seem to find the correct words to describe what I see in this particular WordPress.com header.

  • 20090907-New Theme

    Sorry, folks! I’m trying yet another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Solipsus by Tiffany Nguyen (Rikkye)

    A black and brown two-column design with flowers, clouds and a sun.

    Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, dark, rtl-language-support, left-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post

    PROs:

    • Header is closer to the top, unlike theme`Dusk`, which has a header that pushes my content and sidebars too low into the middle of the screen.
    • Instead of dark blue color of the former, this latter is dark brown and black.
    • It has a left sidebar unlike most other themes, which uses right sidebars.
    • It also has flowers, one sun, one cloud and one frowning face.
    • The date/time stamp, along with comments meta, is located underneath POST titles.
    • No meta appears underneath PAGES.
    • This theme features the < hr > element as a flowery design. Neat!

    CONs:

    • It’s dark but not too dark to hurt the eyes with contrasting, brightly-colored fonts.
    • The letters appear too small but editing my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade helps to increase the font-size to 84% (via the `body` element).
    • There is no custom header.
    • There is no navigation bar with drop-down menu feature.
    • There is no tagline: see reason below.

    Since I still wanted to RETAIN the image of Dante’s Satan in Inferno and the brief welcome message to describe what to do with this weblog, I removed a parent`home` page, which had the same greeting as shown on the `text widget` (which is currently located uppermost left hand portion of the sidebar):

    `God’s goal: be sunny life`. (This is my blog’s tagline).

    Having a left sidebars means I could set my `Front page display` to latest posts instead of setting the `Front page` to `Home` and the `Post page` to `Archives`. My purpose is to allow a short introduction when viewing my weblog through the `front page` via a mobile, cellphone.

    The sidebars may change as I continue to tweak the appearance of my IMPERFECT weblog site.

  • 20090731-Trying Theme

    Since the former theme did not have a `Links template`, I’m trying the free WordPress.com theme to:

    Kubrick by Michael Heilemann

    The default WordPress theme complete with customizable header and widgets.

    Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, custom-header, blue, right-sidebar, sticky-post, white, light, widgets

    As a result, I’ve updated the `link-manager.php` in Flynn’s Orgone with the ones from Flynn’s Blogs.

    But since I know I will change my mind later, I’ve copied the `Link` page from my other weblog site and pasted the data into my `Links` page here.

  • 20090511-Trying Theme

    For my Flynn’s Orgone weblog site here at WordPress.com, I switched ‘The default WordPress theme complete with customizable header and widgets’ (Kubrick) to Ocean Mist by Ed Merritt.

    Its description is: ‘A blueish two-column theme with a large customizable header, visible post author, and category navigation at the bottom.’ Other feature include ‘custom header, two columns, blue, fixed width, rtl (or right table)’.

    I like this one better because the default header shows a scenic image of clouds and ocean in the background with greenery in the foreground. The header of my former theme was a gradient color of violet to indigo.

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