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Poivre Piquant Wordpress Theme.

April 11th, 2008

White Pepper, Milk, Licorice Root, White Sugar and Honey with a touch of Go To Sleep and something that looks like chocolate. While this may sound like some bezar shopping list. It is, in fact the colour scheme for my new website theme here at photogabble.

I had begun to get bored with the last one a while ago, however I have been so busy that I haven’t had time to really work on this website. Those who visit here regularly may notice that I will do redesign and publish it when it is only half baked. That is why a lot of static content is missing from the projects, photography, portfolio and colophon, I simply ran out of time and published it with the mindset of finishing it when I got round to it.

Well as I never really got round to fixing the old theme I have decided to make a new one, you may have already noticed that it is similar to a few well known websites and you would be right in thinking so. To quell any fears, I haven’t plagerised them byte by byte instead I have chosen my favourite elements from each design and put them here.

The basic requirements for the redesign where the following:

• Back to basics: meaning very simple mark-up. If it can be done without using excessive elements then it will be done with out them
• Standardised: I tended to focus simply on the front page and work out every other page
• from there. With this design and consequently future designs, I have worked on each page as their own creative domain. Thus the about page looks different from the gallery and the gallery looks different from the front page. I believe this helps give the different areas of this website their own look and feel.
• Simple Theme: this is the same as back to basics, however not just with the code, I decided that this redesign is to use as few images within it as possible. Not only does this help with accessibility issues, but it also means quicker load times and less load on my poor aging server.

With that all said and done, I shall be re-coding my old pinecone theme and publishing it here very soon as I have had quite a few people email me with interest in using it on their own blog.

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