New Theme
Revised: August 25, 2006After months and months of looking for a better design I have found a new theme to base photogabble on. This wasn't my first choice, but then again my first choice didn't go with the website theme at all. I feel that this theme has a lot of potential for customization. So to begin with I have switched off and removed a lot of the plugins that were sitting around taking up space and slowing the site down. I had been thinking of migrating to Ultimate Tag Warrior for the tag system because people have got it working with Windows Live Writer but I still prefer Bunny’s Technorati Tags as its a lot simpler to use and doesn't come with all the extra fluff that I don't and probably wont ever use.
So what was wrong with the last theme I hear you ask. Well there was never anything really wrong with the last theme, just not a lot right about it either. It used flash which even though I tried my hardest, I couldn't rip out without breaking the theme totally. It was extremely hard to modify with a lot of CSS that didn't really need to exist, also it contained a lot of bugs which led me to try several different methods to get things looking how I wanted them to look, all of which failed. I went back to trying to edit the theme several times this week, but each attempt worked in one browser and broke in another, so I gave up.
Not to say that this theme is without its flaws, to get the Google adverts to show properly I had to edit the size of the main content box which broke the theme, not in a major way all that I had to do was make the third box 20px smaller and it all popped into place. If you think about it, that shows a pretty well designed flexible CSS. Other things I had to edit were the borders around smiles. I have yet to come across a theme that with out me modifying it has come with smiles that show properly. For those of you wondering how, include the code below into the bottom of your style.CSS and it will fix the problem for any theme.
img.wp-smiley{
border: 0pt none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
So yes, I like this theme I have already added a lot of modifications to it, and shall continue to do so. The creator has made this theme very easy to modify as everything is laid out correctly and is easy to understand. So its goodbye Alexified and hello Qwilm!
Tagged: photogabble, Qwilm, wordpress-theme.
Omer Katz
