I Have A New Theme!
... it's just not perfect yet.
As some of you know, I'm not very creative. This posed a pretty big problem when I decided I wanted a blog theme that no-one else would have. Sure, I could have paid someone to do it (I like Ryan Taylors design on the hodge's blog) but I'm a student, and what money I do have is needed to buy gadgets!
Also, there's something rewarding about designing it yourself and seeing it all come together.
As I said, I'm not too creative, so I designed it by working through the sections I need. There's the occasional decent post every now and then, but I tend to bury them with quick posts. My focal point for the new design is featured articles, which will stay on the front page for a while.
Once I had that in place, everything else just slotted around it. The hardest part was designing the single post page. I needed to emphasize content while providing as much meta data as possible. Finding the balance between content and data was pretty difficult, but I eventually decided on twitter, lastfm (titles only) and a set of links.
I know this doesn't really constitute a post, but I've not posted in weeks, and some of you were beginning to worry that I was dead (or worse, had lost internet access!) - hopefully this'll explain why. I'm either working (full time), designing or sleeping - which doesn't leave much time to read up on fancy gadgets or anything. However, it will be financing a new Macbook Pro for me next month, so I should be making a few posts about moving from a pc to a mac, and my experiences as a user, and as a developer.
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