Okay, so I’ve been designing, making and WordPress-ing my new theme. I haven’t got a name for it but I doubt it really needs one. Sunny Boy’s Blog Theme will do nicely. Instead of choosing a template already available, I thought damn it, I’ll make my own. My design is a cross between my ‘Foggy Glass‘ template, the Google Analytics homepage and Cow’s Blog. It’s taken me just over two days to get to the stage that you see now – it’s still pretty buggy on the CSS side though – and I’m pleased with it. It’s unique and there’s no other site on the internet like it.
The Design
I first made a mockup of what I wanted the site to look like. Click the thumbnail below to see my full scale mockup. This was the first time that I’d actually created a mockup before creating a site and I have to say it helped immensly. As you can see I made minor changes to the design but I feel ultimately all the changes I made were for the best.
WordPress
On creating the new design, I wondered what the hell I was going to do with it. Damn it. I’ll make a bloody WordPress theme out of it. And so today I’ve been templating the damn thing. During the process I encountered numerous new holes I had to jump over such as more CSS and exsessive trips back and forth to the WordPress Codex for the functions I needed. It’s surprisingly enjoyable though – just like my theme for Geneone.
Conclusion
In conclusion I am very happy with the new design. I’m not looking for your comments on it but I won’t delete them if you comment either. I’ve still a few CSS and template bugs to sort out so if you see some blue and purple links, don’t mind them – I’ll kill them sooner or later.
