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My 4th WordPress Theme..

Yann Howe — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:49:20 +0000

..for this site that is. Its still being touched up but its totally doped! Its a shame half of the features nobody will ever see or notice. haha.. Its really meant for me. Time for some link love.

Things you will see

Ginormous image support thanks to wp-imagefit
Bible verses thanks to ESV plugin
Tooltips thanks to tippy
Twitter updates thanks to twitter tools
Latest Comments thanks to Brian’s Latest Comments

Things you won’t see/notice

Easy Flickr photo insertion thanks to Flickr Manager
Spam Free thanks to Akismet
Convenient admin navigation thanks to ozh
Backend kept in order by gamerz
Easy edit, admin and login/logout links
Easy aside posting thanks to the Prologue theme
Theme is xhtml & css valid (its a first for me!)

Well, its so nice and decent that I’ll be sharing it with my brother cos we do exactly the same things with our blog. Almost.. just waiting for that elusive iphone admin interface to get working with WordPress 2.5. I think I have just a little bit of details here and there such as his header and the colour scheme to take care of. Total time spent.. hmm… 10-15hours spread over a few days? Thats like really fast man. I guess its because its very low on graphics and I didn’t have to mess around with the CSS alot. I paid attention to web standards, typography, shades and author useability more than anything this time. I really like it! Don’t foresee it changing much in the near future. Think my skillz are not yet madz.. but it is getting there. My design still needs tons of improvement.

Token Giant Image for fun:

My lovely niece is getting cuter everyday!

Theme Reverted

Yann Howe — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:43:20 +0000

Well, I reverted the theme to my trusty blood and sweat one.. Heh.. Turns out the theme wasn’t messing up the posting, it was an errant plugin still living in the pre 2.3 era with some database calls that don’t agree with wp2.3. I shall redesign when I am free.. just as an exercise.

Updated Theme

Yann Howe — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:41:05 +0000

Well, I’m quite fed up with the broken fuctionality of my own banged together franken-theme. I shall fall back on the beautiful K2 Varient, a 3 columned one. With archives and all.. but it only goes back 20++ pages. Looking to see why that happens. I can’t get ack to the very beginning of this blog. wonder why..

Blogroll Navigator + Certain Musings.

Yann Howe — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:30:56 +0000

I did a quick and dirty blog navigator for my own convenience. Its just a frame which displays the selected blog below it. Pretty simple but took me a while because I’m unfamiliar with html frames (so antiquated!!) I wanted to make a link list like the one on the left of my blog (that one’s for myself again too..) but then thought it’ll hard for people to navigate without names. I’m thinking after a long while I’ll remember exactly who’s name is on which button. Or even better, I’ll make it appear on the button. After my exams! Which end like.. next week.

I’m really bored and all but I believe the worst is truly over. Today’s paper was pretty bad but it couldn’t be worse than last saturday’s one.

As for children’s camp I hope they’re doing fine there. This is the first time I’m going to miss both youth and children’s camp (If I don’t defer my NS) I hope they’re all fine. Me and ZG thought of dropping by but he’s got a paper tomolo and everybody will be so super busy anyway.