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Search for new theme - Failed! — SUCCESS

I have spend the better half of this day trying to find a new theme for this blog, and I failed. I cannot decide on a theme, they all are lacking one thing or another. I have tried to mod a few but having to do it online is….so…slow…. I was considering to run a local Wordpress so I can experiment a little better, but I am not ready to install the whole package.

So, for now I give up - and I am back to plain old Grey Matter. If anyone has a good tutorial to create your own template - I am looking at 3 column with a left and a right sidebar, feel free to comment. I have some experience with CSS and HTML, so it does not have to be ultra newbie. I could probably search too, but in all honestly, I am messing with this since 6 hours and I basically have nothing to show for.

Ha, I was just ready to give up when I stumbled across the theme “whitespace” and with just a little tweak here and there, I think I have found what I was looking for. What do you think?

November 30, 2008 | Filed Under Personal 

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5 Responses to “Search for new theme - Failed! — SUCCESS”

  1. Laura on November 30th, 2008

    It looks good, but maybe you should use a sans serif font also for the title, for consistency with the fonts in the rest of the theme?

  2. Susanne on November 30th, 2008

    Yeah, I actually noticed that too, but that’s what the original was too (I fixed the link in the post). I am usually not too fond of font mix but the guy who wrote the original template does this for a living - so I trusted him,
    I’ll check into it next week, I’ve had enough messing with CSS for a day (at least without getting paid for :-) )Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!

  3. Jill on December 1st, 2008

    Looks good. Very professional.

  4. Werner Patels, M.A., C.Tran. on December 8th, 2008

    Finding a good template that satisfies all users is a hopeless undertaking. For some, fonts will never be big enough, while others will find fault with the colour scheme.

    It’s probably best to use any of the ready-made templates (created by people who know their stuff, one should hope so) and then tweak them just a tad.

    My own template, one provided by Typepad/Moveable Type, is fairly decent. The only things I changed was the font (everything was Trebuchet, which was changed to Georgia) and the colour of hyperlinks.

  5. Judy Jenner on December 10th, 2008

    I like it; very nice and clean and uncluttered.

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