Here are the combined blog entries for trying Theme: Blix.
20100507 024501 PM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 20120313 at 12:03:57 PM PDT
I’m getting bored with blogging. But I enjoy switching among WordPress.com themes. This time I’m trying the following:
Blix by Sebastian Schmieg
A tried and true two-column theme with widgets and a customizable header.
Tags: custom-header, fixed-width, green, two-columns, rtl-language-support, white, light, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post
PROs:
- Light color scheme with a hint of blues and yellows.
- Custom header. A Microsoft clipart of yellow flowers , makes the overall feel of the weblog all warm and sunny, like my Gravatar widget, which sports an illustration of a sun with 12-spokes from iStockphoto.com.
- Single page view for `pages`.
- Two-column view for `posts`.
- Search bar to the right of the top navigation bar.
CONs:
- No time/date stamps for both front page and single view.
- No blog description underneath the blog title.
Once again, I’ve narrowed down the pages to four – archives, links, media and pages – based on the WordPress.com Dashboard. If only drop-down menus were available for `Page` widgets in the sidebar, that would be nice.
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2010/10/09 8:47:15 AM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 20111127 at 22:39:02 PM PDT
Last night I switched WordPress.com themes again to
Blix by Sebastian Schmieg
A tried and true two-column theme with widgets and a customizable header.
This morning, I wanted to “View Page Source” of my weblog while tweaking my paid CSS Upgrade.
But what I found was a bit of tasteless humor:
<p><!– this is ugly –>
<span><a href=”[weblog here]” >Next Posts</a></span>
<span><a href=”[weblog here]” >Previous Posts</a></span>
</p>
I guess it’s a generic message placed by the original web designer or TPTB doesn’t like colorful pink, lavender, purple, lime-green, orange and blue. I have a good mind to turn the background to puke yellow!
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2011/08/29 6:24:46 AM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 20111019 at 15:06:58 PM PDT
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!
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2011/11/19 10:01:30 PM | Last edited by FLYNN B on 20111119 at 22:01:30 PM PDT
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 →
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.
Blix by Sebastian Schmieg
A tried and true two-column theme with widgets and a customizable header.
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