New Blog Theme

February 17th, 2008 by Will | Posted in Uncategorized |

Back in January, I switched this blog to run off of DasBlog,
switching away from the old Drupal based site. And
of course, my old theme style didn’t work any more. Since that time, I’ve been using
one of the default DasBlog themes, which, to put it frankly, was ugly. I just finally
uploaded the new theme that I had been working on for the last couple of weeks.

The two goals of the theme were to make the site easy to use, and to show new visitors
who I am and what I do. There are several new features that you’ll find with this
version.

The first, and most visible additions are my phone number and e-mail address front
and centre. I want to remove any barriers to people contacting me, so I put those
two pieces of information where they would be found right away. They are both in an
image, so spammers shouldn’t be able to contact me. And the number is my Grand Central
number, which lets me filter callers if necessary, right now it will ring my phones
directly.

Next, is the new about me section up at the top. There is both a “Twitter Style” quick
blurb, and for those who want to know more, a new About
Me page that should satisfy all but the most curious of visitors.

I’ve added the obligatory list of social networks - all coded directly in HTML, I
want to avoid any JavaScript includes as they slow down your browser and don’t always
look so nice.

The other big addition is my Tumblelog, which I have set up to pull in almost everything
that I do on the web including my Twitter
posts, Flickr photos, Google
Reader Shared Items, and my del.icio.us bookmarks.
I don’t expect many people to do this, but you can subscribe
to the feed if you want to see everything I do on the web.

I hope that you like the update. Please post what you think of it in the comments.
Now, to get to actually posting something to read around here.