Constantly changing, ever evolving.

If any of you have been wondering if I’ve been working on these since my last post the answer is yes. I’ve got to get my hands on my dads camera and take some more photos of them because i made a tree.

I have also been trying to do other animals and even trying to make 3d shapes out of them but with no success and im also running out of speaker cable to do it with. Someone order me more please :p

Since I posted the last post the website has had almost 200 unique hits the most being around 150 on Friday. I have also received 11 digs the last time I looked. As a fist digg goes I guess its not to bad.

Ok as the more aware of you may of noticed my website has had a new theme - i may keep this one more than a couple of mounths.

There are a few things i still want to do - widitise stuff and put a shelf in the bottom stuff. theres probably a few things i havent done as well - these will be fixed at a later stage

 For those of you that actually visit my site and have noticed that its looking strange, that’s because I am currently trying to make a new theme.
Please check back later on to see how I am doing. Thank you to all those that have helped.
 

Sorry for not updating for a long time – I just haven’t done much that I feel I could blog about. I tend not to blog about things that could cause trouble in real life and that’s been the Olney interesting things that’s been happening at the moment. I don’t want this blog to end up like it was back in 2001-2 (look it up on the way back machine under mumbles.no-ip.com).

Well I am working on the winter theme again, or trying to so that might be up later on in the week.

I am also trying to start a business – the website is at www.networkeasy.co.uk which should turn into a starting up your business type blog.

For those of you that didn’t know I turned 22 on the 28th October.

In an effort to make my page load faster I have changed my theme. I will be editing this live as I don’t have many visitors so the site mite brake.

And sorry if you where trying to visit when the downtime was happening. I still don’t know what caused that.

Well I have now gotten my theme site underway again – I am cleaning up all the themes and making them widget and widgetless compatible. I am also making shore the screenshots are right and everything works for wordpress 2.1.

I have now finally finished designing my own theme from scratch for the first time – the other themes where “ports” (heavily modified) of other peoples work. The rounded series Dark/Light came about because I was trying to take park in CSS reboot or at least that was the plan. Unfortunately I didn’t complete my theme till 3 days later. As far as I can remember its taken me about a month to be happy with the theme. I could off released it a lot earlier but it wasn’t “right”.

Plugins
The only plugin that’s crucial to the theme is The Excerpt Reloaded - which I am using to automatically cut down the post size once its not the first post anymore. I use

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< ?php the_excerpt_reloaded(100,' < P > <b > <i> <u> <em> <strong> <blockquote> <img /> <a > <ol> <ul> <li>’,FALSE); ?>

So that’s cut posts off at 100 words and allow those codes in a post. I cant remember what the False s for.

The Excerpt Reloaded . By Kaf Oseo.

I am also using the widget plug-in for sidebar management across all my themes -

Sidebar Widgets By Automattic, Inc

Design –
If you take a look at my themes site you should see where I have come from in the past couple of months – Violet theme which hasn’t got any rounded corners but dose have a right and side nave bar. Rounded which is a blue theme. I haven’t got the others uploaded to my theme site yet but I will have.

I set out on making a theme from scratch after seeing vidar’s site after a redesign. I liked the colours he was using and set out to make something like that – in the end I ended up with something completely different but still cool , least I think so and that’s what matters.

Things I have learnt.

As this was the first time I have actually made a theme from scratch and actually finished it without giving up, the main thing I learnt is that if you have a problem and have used up all your resources (ie google) don’t hesitate to ask people. The guys and girls on irc.freenode.net channels #wordpress and #css have helped me out when I have got stuck – #css mainly when I was having border problems (reisio) and #wordpress when I couldn’t get the php loop working properly (undersigned)

If you have got a blog and want a theme different from all of the rest don’t hesitate to make a theme yourself – maybe someone else will like it.

ok i am now testing wpg2 plugin * NOT FOUND * This looks like its working

New Theme - Rounded Dark V 0.1.0
Well – I am soon going to be releasing the first of the rounded series of themes – possibly some time during this week as soon as I have gotten all the little bugs ironed out – you can use the theme switcher on the right to view the other themes that I have done – MumblesBlue and MumblesBlueexpanded which I will soon be re-releasing with a few updates as soon as I have finished the Rounded series.

Edit - I have now desicded that i dont like the theme after all. well not right now. so im going to start work on another theme and then work on it later.