New layout coming soon…

January 17th, 2006 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |

I am working on a new layout/theme for jakebouma.com. Just as designing the current layout was painstaking, so is this one.

Right now I have a two-column theme. The posts are on the left, in a big column, and the other info is located in a skinnier column on the right. For a long time, though, I have wanted to have a three-column theme (like Pomomusings or TallSkinnyKiwi) for a couple of reasons. First, I can display more information on the main page without using a single, ridiculously long column and second, I think it looks more professional.

The theme I am currently using originally looked like this, and I spent quite a long time tweaking it to my liking. It was pretty difficult and a little frustrating at times, because Wordpress themes are written in CSS, a web design language I know almost nothing about (although I am getting better). I still don’t have enough CSS and code knowledge to design a theme from scratch, so I am using another “template” theme, tweaking the crap out of it. The final product will look nothing like the original template theme.

The new theme will retain many visual aspects of the current one, such as the lime-green color theme, but it will be nearly a billion times better.

Look for it in the next few days.