A New Theme at Last

Filed under Geeky stuff, Personal Randomness

Mar

2007

Finally, I just made myself a theme from scratch and have recovered from the headache caused by some typographical error in my CSS code. The theme that I have created has a table-less layout. I’ve tested it in both Firefox and Internet Explorer 6 and it works pretty good in both browsers. I’ve added new plugins like the Flickr RSS plugin, the Show Top Commentators plugin and the Get Recent Comments plugin. I’ve also made some changes with how my Bidvertiser ads show. It seems that it has been the cause of why my page takes too long to load as what Fendi have commented.

I was even thinking of making it widgets-ready so that I could have others download the template and easily customize it. I guess I’ll just make a two-column, widgets-ready theme in the future.

Any comments on my new theme?

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14 Responses to “A New Theme at Last”

fruityoaty
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:47 pm

Well, I like it. It’s clean-looking, nice selection of colours (minimal) and definitely much faster now. Yes, I do agree with Fendi… it used to load a bit slow before. Plus, good integration of your ad $$$ stuff (which can sometimes be really intrusive-in-your-face on other blogs).

The footer area is nice too - populated with the necessary shizzle (top gabbers, recent comments, Flickr, MyBlogLog) without overdosing on gizmo-crack (unlike moi, who obviously doesn’t know how to practice restraint on plugin-sidebar-heroin, HAHAHA).

Mmmm, mmm, good and tasty with a side of fries.
Karla Redor
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:53 pm

I’m glad you liked it
yeah I really do not want to put something that is unnecessary.
you should practice some restraint on the sidebar thing
it’s just a little bit of coding
Brian J. Hong
March 24th, 2007 at 1:50 am

Hey cool! It’s all organized and stuff. I really like it. Not as cluttered. Good job!
kissfendi
March 24th, 2007 at 4:15 am

Clean cut! I like the Flickr below..it’s really sweet..

Kiss
Fendi
Karla Redor
March 24th, 2007 at 9:52 am

Hi Brian, yeah I wanted to make a theme like this a long time ago but I really didn’t have the time

Hi Fendi
Yeah the Flickr
I love that plugin hehe
arnold
March 24th, 2007 at 10:39 am

Nice them Karla! Hope I can finish the theme I’m working on as well.

Go, submit it at Wordpress.org!
Karla Redor
March 24th, 2007 at 11:14 am

Hi arnold

Yes I’ll be submitting a theme soon to Wordpress.org haha
one of the Link bait tactics hehehe
Tess Termulo
March 24th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

I like your theme actually. When are you going to make it available for public consumption? Hehe
Karla Redor
March 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

Hi Tess

I’ll make a two-column theme with a footer like this in my blog
I’ll go experiment with different color schemes and make it available for public consumption
ade
March 24th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

Me likey!
Ian
March 29th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

Looks clean. One minor nag: the comments fall off the container with the white background. *shrugs* (Haven’t looked at the source, but a quick adjustment in the div placement, perhaps?)

Also, I don’t know if it’s just my quirky browser (FF, in single window mode) but whenever I click on continue reading, it opens up a new tab.

Great theme, though.
Karla Redor
March 29th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

Hi Ian,
The comments fall off the container?
I’m using Firefox and it works fine with it. As well as in IE.
Maybe your settings in Firefox is to open the link in a new tab

thanks
Ian
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:21 am

Got it. Heh. My proxy’s cutting off some pages, which aren’t downloading completely. Must be the Flickr photos at the footer.
Karla Redor
April 3rd, 2007 at 8:32 am

haha so that’s the reason :p

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Blogging live via Paranaque City since 2001. A 20-something graduate of DLSU-Manila. An engineer, amateur photographer, graphic and layout artist. Plays the guitar. Always thought to belong to a certain band. Almost got stuck in a mosh pit but rarely in the mush pit. Coffee lover. Former gig-a-holic. Asteeg!