Today’s theme: themes.
July 27th, 2009
The way that rog-blog used to look was simply down to the fact that once I’d set it up, I used the “That’ll do” principle. This involved a quick visit to WordPress’s themes page and looking for something that I liked. I saw the Lightword theme and decided, “That’ll do”.
But I always knew that sooner or later, I would have to spend some time looking in to changing it. Mainly because I would probably want to add widgets and the like in strategic places. With the launch of my “PPP”, I wanted to add a form to the blog, but I didn’t want to force too much of the contents of the one side-bar “below the fold”. And with this in mind, after looking at some of the blogs of fellow Marketing With Alex 2.0 students, I guessed that a 3-column theme might be best.
So today, I have spent a couple of hours searching and experimenting with various themes. The current incumbent is called Jules Joffrin, but depending on when you read this, it may have changed again 
What I like about it is that it actually has one sidebar spread over the width of two columns. (If you speak HTML, I think it’s a case of “COLSPAN=2″, but don’t quote me on that !) This let’s you feature one or two widgets prominently and then you can “save space” by having list-type widgets alongside each other in the two columns below.
What I don’t like is that something is drawing in dotted lines in the table in the sign-up form. I have done a little experimentation and I think that it’s probably down to the style sheet associated with the theme. And although I can get by in HTML, my CSS is a lot shakier.
However, I have spent more than enough time on it for the moment and I have to be doing other things. So it’ll probably stay like this for a while, but I will look at some other themes when I get the chance.
Meantime, feedback is always welcome, particularly if you know how to get rid of those dotted lines !
Categories: General
Hey Rog,
I like the look of this website, sorry can’t help with getting rid of your dotted lines. I know what it is like searching for themes can get a bit painful.
Cheers
Mel
Looks good, Roger. Love your title also.
Rod, Melanie, thanks for the feedback. Glad you like it
Hey Roger,
The issue is probably to do with the CSS. You can get some designer on Elance to take a look at the stylesheet and have it fixed for a few bucks, so don’t slave over it when you don’t need to. Other than that, the overall design is great!
David