Regular readers of my blog who visit the site (not just subscribe to the RSS) will have noticed over time, since I made this theme and released it on June 3rd 2008, my blog slowly changing and looking more sleek and refined. I’ve literally just finished the comments CSS, so comments are nicely boxed up and styled, rather than the basic numbered list. Also, people might’ve noticed the sidebar suddenly shifting to the left. As Sii says, the posts being below the search box makes more contextual sense as well. I also recently added a shiny RSS icon, made by Jay Hilgert. Looking at the picture to the left (it’s the only one I have unfortunately so it’s a bit low-res), you can see how much it’s changed.
And thinking about it, how much I’ve changed as well! I’ve been dabbling an awful lot more in trying to make things XHTML compliant and using CSS in the proper fashion recently, and after a bit of modification to the Picasa widget, my page is fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid. I’ve not bothered making it strict yet, as generally widgets made by other people take a lot of work to make them strict. In fact, up until Matched.co.uk went under, my pages have been non-compliant due to non-compliant Matched.co.uk ad code.
And last, but most certainly not least, the biggest change is of course the pregnancy, which is coming along swimmingly by the way!
At lunch, I asked Sii (one of our design guru’s here at Netbasic) to see what he thought of my new theme. He said pretty much straight away to get rid of the solid black lines, so I’ve replaced them all (except the date by the post titles as I stupidly put the border in the image itself…) with more subtle greys. So if you’re still seeing solid black lines around stuff, clear your cache and enjoy the new easier-on-the-eye greys. Cheers Sii!
If you’re reading this on the site as opposed to your normal feed reader, then you’ll notice my brand new shiny theme. If you’re reading it in IE, it will look crap. It works in Firefox, but I have yet to do IE-compatibility – if anyone fancies taking a gander at the code and fixing it for me, please do! I’ve got some minor tweaks to do to it (comments are un-styled at the moment for example), but mostly I’m quite happy with it. If anyone notices anything broken or odd, please do let me know!
Edit: I’ve decided I prefer the way it looks in IE, so I modified the theme so Firefox matches the layout of the IE theme 
This weekend, me and my cousins met up at the pub that my grandparents used to own, the Old Duke in Bristol. We had a lot of fun and had a really good night. My head was quite painful the day after, but I’m OK now after going to sleep at 8:40pm Sunday night!
You may also notice that I’ve put up a new theme here. I don’t really have time to make my own, so I used one from the WP Theme Viewer. Credit for this theme goes to a Spanish Italian chap called Tommaso Baldovino. I’ve taken out the flowery bits but the general colour and simplicity and accessibility of it I like, so I thought I’d use it until I get my ass in gear and make my own theme (hah, one day…). My 360 Gamercard is missing for now, but I’ll live…
OK, up until now I haven’t really bothered with a custom theme or anything for my blog. I think now I’m posting a lot more regularly on here and I’ve got a few more subscribers I should probably invent some kind of theme. I can’t guarantee this will happen very fast though as I’m a very busy man. Anyway, I’m off to bed now!
Note to self: make a wordpress theme.
