Utter Neglect
I started another blog, and podcast last November and you can certainly tell! It’s now JUNE and I am finally getting around to finishing the blog redesign. Its wholly updated compared to the previous version but carries through several key design elements:
- Rounded corners
- Purple shaded “brushed metal” texture
- Right-hand sidebar
- Fixed-width and floating
- Dark grey background
- Content-area fully enclosed, containing posts and sidebar
The new theme adds some elements too:
- Stronger emphasis on pages with “page navigation” at the head of the sidebar
- Stronger emphasis on pages with tabs at top of the template
- “Search” properly integrated into the template
- Categories finally in a decent place
- More emphasis on syndication - allowing for a “podcast” audio blog link
In the process of creating the theme, I also created several widgets to give me features I was looking for:
- Detailed “recent posts” box in sidebar.
- Modified and “widget-ized” the collapsing-page-menu plugin.
- Compact year/month archive listing.
All of which will be released in due course. Note: I’ve attempted to contact the original “collapsing page menu” author but there’s been no response. If nothing comes of the request I might see about aquiring ownership of the plugin as it’s jolly useful!