Oops I did it again …
Over the past week I’ve been working on a couple new websites for clients and that has led me to re-examine my own website, frankly I wasn’t happy with what I saw so I took a little bit of time and redesigned the theme for my site to what you see now.
The site has been designed to be less of a blog and more of a feature set of my skills etc. but I also wanted to keep the blog part of the site alive, so I added a custom index page in WordPress and separated the template for pages vs. posts to appear different. The other major addition is some custom coding in the pages file which displays custom links for the Contact page and the new Blog page which features a category breakdown as well as the tag cloud for my site.
The sidebar and the homepage share custom content, called from hidden data stored as pages in WordPress. There is of course still RSS feeds and all the usual goodies that come with WordPress, since the new design is just a skin overtop the engine.
Hey, great redesign! My jaw dropped when I first saw your theme! Good job!
One suggestion, though – make links a bit darker (or use a different color). See, when links are not remarked using &tl;strong>, they’re hard to spot (eg. your “Contact” and “Blog” links on this entry).
My blog is getting revamped, too! New theme will be out by early january, I think.
Cheers!
Thanks Ikki, great point. I added a nice little underline.
Don’t worry, mate! Looks much better now :)
I really like the new design Chris, I too am gearing up for that need an extra sidebar, if I’d only known when I started I would have chosen a much different theme.
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Your site looks good!