Easily Distracted
[fa:p:a=blog-images,id=468655827,j=l,s=s,l=p]Yeah, so….
In case you didn’t notice, I have a new theme (again). Which is particularly funny to me anyway, because I never even finished the one I was working on in this post. Oh well … This is probably for the best.
In the end, I decided that I didn’t really have the time to build a theme from scratch, it just takes to long. So I went with a pre-built theme by 5thirtyone (Wordpress V2), the same designer that did my brothers theme (Foliage Mod). I’ve made some minor adjustments to it, but probably not enough for anybody to really notice so the credit certainly goes to Derek Punsalan of 5thirtyone
Most notably though, in my opinion anyway, is that I’ve ditched using Gallery2 for managing my pictures and conformed into using Flickr. It means I’ve given up complete control since Flickr isn’t installed on my server, its actually run by Yahoo. But thats both good and bad. again with the “I dont have the time” theme, I don’t have to control Flickr. Also, Flickr seems to have a better API, so I was able to install a Wordpress plugin, FAlbum By Elijah Cornell, that puts all the pictures right on my website without having to fool around. There are a few other really good plugins installed to, but I’ll leave those for another post.
I’m interested to hear what you have to say about the theme, all you have to do is post a comment
Spiffy new layout! It’s been a while since I’ve been to your site so I had forgotten what it looked like. I suspected something was up but then I read the post and all was confirmed. Excellent.
Hey, I’m back in town. Let’s hang out. Rumor is we live closer now.
Hey dude, nice layout. I like the wish list section.
Hows that new anti-crappy-drug-sex-post software working? I am going nuts deleting 7-6 posts a day.
Thanks for the comments guys. I’m really happy with this theme and how everything has come together in a relatively short period of time (I bet I’ve spent less than 10 hours on this rebuild).
Oh, and the Akismet plugin to reduce spam is awesome, I’ve been able to disable any kind of approval and I haven’t seen a single piece of spam come through… I’ll set it up on your site Chris.