Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: themes

  • 20101021-Tweaking Again

    Out of sheer boredom and lack of joy, I’ve switched many WordPress.com themes, only to return to the Fusion theme by digitalnature due to the “front/home page” option of “excerpts” for posts.

    With the “Layout Width” set to “Flexible”, I’ve discovered the versatility of the “Footer Widget Area” and have placed the blogroll “Links”, because this theme does NOT have an “Archives template” for pages.

    A single sidebar is set to the left and I’ve removed the fruity, rainbow colored “header”. The default is basic black and white.

    As a result, I had to tweak two sidebar “Image widgets” to match the overall monotone color of my current weblog. The “Sunboy” image of pinkish is now an eerie silhouette of someone’s head! OMG! I’m freaking out! St. John the Baptist, too, is colorless and less fruity.

  • Trying Theme: Spectrum

    So I’ve switched WordPress.com themes again. While I love the larger-than-life fonts and rainbow colors of the most recently added theme “Spectrum”, I wanted something simple, like “Tarski”, which has templates for the “Archives” and “Links” pages.

    But I discovered this rather old (but still new) WordPress.com theme works nicely:

    Paperpunch by The Theme Foundry

    A clean and versatile theme featuring a subtle, textured background. Paperpunch features a widget-ready sidebar and four additional footer columns to display all your widgets. Read more about Paperpunch →

    Since I couldn’t have a FAIRY-TALE DREAM of unicorns, butterflies, rainbows, clouds, and flowers somewhere on my blog;  I’ve browsed online, saw one that looked “normal”, uploaded and cropped a background image which had the “spectrum” of rainbow colors:

     

    Rainbow Spectrum
    Rainbow Spectrum

     

    Then with the current “Custom Background”, I’m able to get a “Display Options” of Position: Right; Repeat: Tile Horizontally; Attachment: Fixed; and Color: BLACK (or #000000).

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    Addendum-Last edited by FLYNN on 20101015 at 20:06:19 pm: Forget it! I went back to the Twenty-Ten theme by the WordPress team. I must be VERY dis-satisfied with my weblog layout.

    Addendum-Last edited by FLYNN on 20101015 at 20:07:48 pm: Forget it! I went back to the Fusion theme by digitalnature. I must be nuts by now. But alas, I see that the rainbow header looks better on this theme, except the damn sidebar rides up too high and covers the blue and purple rainbow colors, which are more than made up with the purple eye-candy tags.

  • 20101011-Tweaking Again

    By golly! I think I’m actually happy (temporarily) with the multiple-colored appearance of my WordPress.com weblog, thanks in part to the Custom CSS Upgrade. This time the background colors are pastel for the CSS elements:

    • Light blue for the “post title”;
    • Light yellow for the “comment meta”;
    • Light orange for the “blockquote”‘;
    • Light pink for the “post feedback”; and
    • Light green for the “sidebar h2”.

    The overall gray color minimizes the brightness of the white backgrounds of the “header”, “wrapper”, “content” and “sidebar”.

  • 20101009-Tweaking Again

    See? Look what you’ve done! I made my weblog look like eye candy:

    • Yellow for the “container” and “header”.
    • Pink for the “sidebar”.
    • Purple for the “blog header title”.
    • Lavender for the “header”.
    • Pink for the “body”.

    The default colors are orange for the “search bar” and lime-green for the “sidebar header”.

  • 20101008-Bored Again

    In one hour from 9:00am to 10:00am, I finished today’s scheduling of new products. This means the backlog is pretty much finished. Can I go home now and call it a day? I’m bored again and hate this temp job from hell, seriously! I tried pulling up the other two reports (and double-check their work) but the system won’t allow me.

    Yesterday, I’ve burned out at the end of the day by completing two “families” – an “ARM” (mine) and a “leg” (hers). Each family took about two hours to complete. And with my work speed being especially FAST, I think the twosome will take twice as long! As a result and after four hours or non-stop data entry, my brain, arms and hands stopped completely! I had no energy left to lift a finger.

    The other two temps were relaxed, err, rather “intentionally” distracted by N. Le and Lucas. They know how I work because, well, the place CAN monitor our activities on the computer – when we log on/off, what we are entering and if we work fast or not. Plus, the auditors are always here – daily! They have their own BIG/shared cubicle.

    Anyway, what I did is study the formulas in one of Lucus’ spreadsheet. Two columns were wrong! Those picked up the wrong column from the “master” tab and another wrong column from another worksheet tab. Only my spreadsheet works. I don’t know about the other two temps. They don’t seem to care.

    By using my COMMON SENSE, I tweaked the formulas and that reduced the chances of scheduling “excluded” orders. I should be paid twice for my brain power here! I cannot afford to feed my family on minimum friggin’ wage! Data entry is fun but I’m wasting time waiting for my hand-out from TPTB. Get it, now?

  • 20101003-Tweaking Again

    Bahaha! Like my feed showing each article as a summary, my “front/home” page now shows less than EXCERPTS! It’s sheer torture to “force” readers to “Read more” by clicking on each blog/post/article entry! My purpose was to eliminate long entries and to the focus of my sidebars, which contain blogroll links to orgone vendors and such.

    Thanks to the WordPress.com Custom CSS Upgrade, I’ve made my weblog pretty again. It has Donna’s favorite colors of purple (for the header) and green (for the sidebar headers). As a result, I cannot get the purple as a border around the site because of the hard-coding of the original theme designer. The fonts are basic black against white background for her sake again.

    The WordPress.com theme used (AGAIN) is:

    Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    A theme with powerful, semantic CSS selectors and the ability to add new skins.

    I like this theme because it has the templates for ARCHIVES and LINKS. Other themes have one or the other. Plus, I require my TIME/DATE STAMP to appear on both the “body.home” and “body.single” elements. So I’m keeping this one for awhile until I get bored with the layout. Sheesh!

  • 20100929-Tweaking Again

    I’ve finished tweaking my paid CSS upgrade to the ChaosTheory theme here at WordPress.com:

    • Purple colors!
    • Auto widths!
    • Column monster with two bottom/sidebars and widgets!
    • Custom menus, just the way I like it!
    • Blog/site title and its tagline/description inside header!
    • Meta data with TIME/date stamp underneath Blog/post title (sans author information)!

    That’s all. I should go to sleep now because tomorrow is going to be lots of Q4 allocation, as if I care – NOT!

  • Trying Theme: Fusion

    Bahaha! Have I gone nuts yet? Nope! Why? It’s because I’m trying a new theme here at WordPress.com:

    Fusion by digitalnature

    A flexible theme with a widget-ready footer, custom header image and menu. Layout options include flexible or fluid main column, choice of left or right sidebar, two right sidebars, or a full-width option with no sidebars.

    PROs:

    • Choice between Fixed and Flexible (my choice) widths!
    • Choice between Full Post and Excerpt (my choice); so readers are “forced” to click on the links – READ IT and WEEP!
    • Choice of four layouts: Right Sidebar (my choice), Left Sidebar, Two Right Sidebars, and No Sidebar (Use footer widget area).
    • Choice of uploading header of exactly 980 x 148 pixels. I used the “path.jpg” image.
    • Supports one (1) Theme location, which is the primary navigation for Custom Menus/Links.
    • Supports footer widget area. Using four widgets is recommended by moi.
    • Shows time-stamp on single view of blog/post entry!
    • Features colorful “mouse-overs” (not fly-bys).

  • 20100916-Tweaking Again

    It’s sheer madness to be an addicted weblogger and an amateur CSS editor to my paid upgrade! Again, I’ve been switching themes and editing my custom CSS stylesheet. So right now, I’m back to using the The Journalist v1.9 by Lucian E. Marin because of the unique `archive template` featuring archives, categories AND tags! With this theme, I get my preferred TIME stamp as well as the `links template`.

    Based on the Twenty Theme theme stylesheet, I’ve increased the `font size` to 16 pixels and used a simple `font family` of `Georgia` and `Serif`. With the blue-colored background of crispy, clear blue skies above and the white-washed, foam of sea water below, reading will be much brighter and easier, too!

  • Custom Menu

    Hahaha! I’m having too much fun tweaking my `Custom Menus` via Dashboard >> Appearance >> Menus (or via https://[user name here].wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php].

    So instead of duplicating the `Contents` page with the drop-down, custom links feature of the top (or primary) navigation bar, I’ve removed forty-four of my precious pages and added only three `custom links`: About, Author and Contact!

    Again the layout to my weblog has been inspired by modeling after my favorite websites online.

  • 20100905-Tweaking Again

    Besides going nuts over the `best` WordPress.com theme and despite wanting TIME stamps directly underneath the blog titles, I’ve decided to quit – not blogging, but changing themes and keeping `Twenty Ten by the WordPress team`. Why?

    I’ve discovered the customization of the `Menus` and added four more of my sites as part of the `Primary Navigation`. Plus I could ALWAYS changed the URL, Navigation Label and Title Attributes for each `Custom Links`!

    As a result, I’ve edited ALL my pages to be set as its own `Parent (or main) page`. This means the link for each page will be cleaner and immediately follow after the domain name proper.

    I’ve also tweaked my `Living with Orgone` site to have four widgets at the bottom and four sites of the `Primary Navigation` located on top.

  • 20100904-Trying Theme

    I’ve changed WordPress.com themes again. This time is the VERY plain-looking one:

    Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    A theme with powerful, semantic CSS selectors and the ability to add new skins.

    I’m tempted to buy the CSS upgrade again. But as mentioned in my previous blog entry, I would never be satisfied with the layout no matter what colors, fonts, backgrounds, etc. I happen to use to `liven` up my weblog.

    I’m using the `Three-Column Minimalist` style with two right sidebars. I noticed that most web browsers (when minimized) are viewed starting from the left. The rest of the screen to the right can be viewed by using the scrollbar located at the bottom of the web browser. However, the embedded YouTube.com videos don’t `auto-adjust` to the width of the `content` element. And that’s a bummer!