Working On A New Theme

Thursday July 10, 2008 

Anyone who’s been a regular follower of this blog over the years knows that I have a tendency to change themes at the drop of a hat.  Something in a different theme will catch my eye and I’ll install that theme for awhile until one comes along with something else that’s "better".

I’m constantly telling Tyler that I don’t even think that I could go to a designer to get a custom one done because I don’t think that I could accurately describe to them what it is that I want.  I have the design in my head, but I just can’t put it into words.  Yeah, I’d be one of those customers from hell that web designers love *so* much.  I don’t want to be, but I know that I would.

So, I’ve downloaded the Sandbox theme for Wordpress and I’m going to go to work on it, trying to design a theme that I’d be happy with.  You won’t see much in changes around here for awhile, though, as I have a ’sandbox’ installation on both my home and work machines that allow me to test there before I go live with anything.  This is something that I’ve done for a couple of years now, and even blogged about it before.

If nothing else, it’ll help me work on my CSS and PHP skills, too, so that won’t be a bad thing.

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3 Responses to “Working On A New Theme”

  1. Tyler Ingram on July 10th, 2008 7:42 am

    Remember you can use Photoshop to do your initial layout. Think of it as a graphical sandbox!

    Then you can cut it into pieces, and glue it back together using CSS! Like I sort of showed you!

    Remember if you’re stuck, just ask! Also when using CSS http://www.w3schools.com is your best friend ;)

  2. Rod on July 10th, 2008 10:04 am

    And that’s the site I’ll be going to. Thanks.

  3. Dennis Edell on July 10th, 2008 1:50 pm

    Awesome Rod, can’t wait to see it! :)

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