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.

The past few weeks I have been at ravenswood school helping out there it support people. That’s why I haven’t done much to the site. Though I am looking into why the site takes forever to load up, I my end up doing a light version of it.

I know own a licence for mint- so expect lots of blog posts about stats and user searches.. my Technorati Rank: 262,272 (77 links from 13 sites) has gone up.

Well tonight I finally “finished” my website. Ie – everything works the way I want it to, (gallery intrigation, xhtml strict valid, and lots of other stuff)
I may add a few more things to the site – a tag cloud and some feeds from my other websites.

And i updated my theme site today as well - go me:p

Well I have submitted this site to 9rules.com Round 4, and as such I am currently trying to work out if anything is out of place or not working. Please tell me if you find anything wrong.

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 added some icons to the theme - they are from famfamfam’s icon set

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

My mate fragmatic/ has left for sunny Kuala Lumpur. on a holiday -

and my theme is almost done so i might even relese it to the public.