Ditching the old look of Nepherte.be
I’ve been thinkering for a while now to change the design of the site. The current design, while visually very appealing, poses a couple of practical limitations. For one, it has a fixed width. A rather not so large width to be precisely. It doesn’t allow for long structured postings with many commands to show how some things are done in linux. Eventually, these long posts are doomed to occupy a great height of the site.
Another limitation is adding fixed pages. The top right menu contains only 3 horizontal items with a fixed graphically coded text, namely ‘Home’, ‘About’ and ‘Archives’. Though I could also code them in a right side menus such as ‘Recent Posts’ or ‘Categories’, they don’t belong there conceptually speaking. The coding itself is not a problem (I guess studying engineering in computer science finally pays off), it would also require creating some extra graphics, something I’m not very good at.
Therefore I decided to drop the current design, Notepad Chaos, and go with a new one. The search for a new theme can be very cumbersome like today. There are hundreds of site with free wordpress templates, most of them plain ugly. My demands and preferences don’t make it easier for me either. Fortunately I stumbled upon a site (Blog Perfume) with more qualitive themes, at least that’s what I think, where I found my new theme. It will take a little while before the new look is in use. I still have to make some changes in the php code to be sure the site looks exactly the way I want it to be. The next post will probably be in the new look. See you then.
Exciting!!! I myself just finished a WordPress Theme Hunt (but most likely not such an extensive one as yourself). I finally picked Atahualpa which is hugely popular, mainly because it’s not a real theme but more a wysiwg-editor for your site’s lay-out. Every can be adjusted and you don’t have to dig through hunderds of css-files (which I hate, I prefer the clean logics of php any given day…). However, I’m really look forward to your new theme, I hope it’s as slick looking as this one and with all your prefered features…
I’ve scoured some wordpress templates in the past so I already knew where not to look. Yesterday’s search, though with some good results, didn’t take all to long because of it. Lucky me.
Haven’t seen Atahualpa before but it sure looks great. If you finished a site, I’d be more than happy to visit the place! Make sure you let me know.