Okay. So you may have noticed that my blog design has changed a little. My long term goal is to develop my own theme using the Sandbox from plaintxt.org. (You can read about this in my earlier post). In the meantime, I have decided to use the K2 theme, which is an evolutionary design from the developer of Kubrick—the default theme that comes with WordPress.
This theme gives me a three column layout, plus it uses AJAX to bring some dynamic interaction to the blog. Check out the search box as an example.
And the extra column has also given me room to use the DiSo Actionstream plugin by Stephen Paul Weber. This is a neat little plugin that aggregates all my activity from other social sites into one stream, and displays it chronologically on my blog.
Thanks to the guys over at ContentRobot my blog is now iPhone and iPod Touch friendly. They have developed a plugin and theme called iWPhone that work together to automatically format any WordPress blog for optimized viewing on the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch. By examining the user agent string, the plugin only delivers the optimized theme if it detects an iPhone or iPod Touch is browsing the site.
Genius.
Today I have begun to think about theming my blog, although I have to say that the default WordPress theme has grown on me. Looking around at the free themes on the Internet I am impressed at quality of many of them, but have decided to go for something that is uniquely mine.
So after some intense Googling I have decided to develop my own theme using the Sandbox from plaintxt.org.
The Sandbox is a framework theme that only requires additional CSS code to style the blog. The beauty of the Sandbox is that all the CSS class and ID hooks a designer could possibly need are generated for them automatically within clean XHTML code. This means it is theoretically possible to transform the blog into any design using only CSS code.
If you are a WordPress theme designer, you really should check the Sandbox out.
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