There’s a new look here at the blog! I had a spur of the moment burst of energy and inspiration and decided to channel that into the long, arduous process that is coding a custom WordPress layout. There are several things I did with this layout that I wanted to try out:
- Using custom fonts! I used this quick and easy tutorial by the lovely Jenny to replace all <h1> tags and the page menu with a font I’ve been in love with recently – District Thin. I really love how it turned out!
- Integrating Lifestream. I’ve been wanting to integrate the Lifestream Plugin for a while now, but I never got around to it. Unfortunately for me, there’s still some kinks that need to be worked out — the Lifestream page only seems to look right in Internet Explorer (that’s a first!!) and is giving me problems in Chrome and Firefox. I haven’t checked Safari, but I’m assured by Marjorie that it looks right. Anyone know why? :(
I spent 7 or 8 hours straight from 9 at night to 5 in the morning completing the look (from designing to coding), and despite all the frustrations WordPress gives me, I was really happy while doing it. (Does that make me sound like a coding masochist? Hahahaha.) I think all in all, I’ve accomplished what I wanted to do with the look — something simple and clean. On the downside, I thought there was originally too much yellow going on (namely links), so I made entry links and sidebar links different colors. I’m not sure if it looks weird or not.
