Site Update 2
I have a new theme. For those of you who are reading the RSS feed (which was seamlessly transferred to run through FeedBurner), come on down and see the updates to the site.
While I was monkeying around with my own theme (and of course multitasking like crazy), I made a comment on Henrik Edburg’s PositivityBlog, and was shocked to see some very subtle AJAX functionality. Being a nerd, who thinks that code can be art, I was very impressed, and I set out to find the plugin that worked so smoothly. It turned out not to be a plugin, but a feature in a very well put-together theme. The creators of Kubric, the default Wordpress theme, have outdone themselves, and have created a new theme, K2, which has some very handy features for administering your blog. The sidebar has a handy, draggable interface, so the amount of work that you have to do to add items is greatly reduced. No more hunting through the sidebar file, reading the PHP code, to find the right spot to place even more code. If you want to make a change to an item, you can find that item very quickly and easily now as well.
Overall, I’m very impressed that the creators of the theme have kept the theme powerful, but have also made it much easier to use. I still don’t have the two sidebars that I want, but the random images in the header are a definite bonus. Most of the layout editing is finished for now, with just a few tweaks as I come to them. One thing that I don’t like about the theme, though, is that it puts a whole bunch of CSS information into the top of the page, which I understand hurts site indexing slightly. We’ll see how the Google ranking grows as time goes on and see if it really does matter or not.
Also, I now have the time to post a page every weekday, so I’ll be taking the weekends off, using that time to research and implement features for the blog.
Thanks for the visit, and yeah, K2 is excellent and very easy to use. Especially for someone like me who knows very little about the more technical side of blogging.
Only problem is that I feel there´s to much white space between the lines of text. So I fix that in Word and then just cut and paste into Wordpress.
I can definitely commiserate there. I’ve had enough problems with Wordpress changing up the format of what I have written that I don’t even bother to use the rich visual editor any more.
One more ‘bug’ to add is that it doesn’t let me use the nested comments any more. It looks like I’ll be troubleshooting for a while, and I’ll probably end up with a very hackish solution. Still, though, it is well worth it.
Thanks for letting me know about K2, Henrik.