SubscribeYep, I’ve decided that Kubrick just won’t cut it. The reason is that it isn’t “brandable.” So many sites have Kubrick that you can’t really tell them apart if you just look at the layout.
The reason I stuck with Kubrick in the first place was that I couldn’t find another theme I really liked. So I think what I’m going to do is design a new theme from scratch.
Of course, this will take a while, so keep an eye out for it in a couple of months.
Jeremy responded on 09 Feb 2007 at 5:39 pm #
K2 is quite nice, you commented on it before on my blog about its ‘AJAXy goodness’ (which is currently disabled on my blog due to its incompatibility with my new mime-type). The cool thing about K2 is that it is designed to be really easy to customise the header image. Any image will do, and the theme will resize itself. Obviously, a sane size would be good, like 700×300 or so.
John Lamansky responded on 11 Feb 2007 at 7:29 am #
Yeah, as I said before, K2 is pretty nice; but regardless, I think it would be good practice for me to design a WordPress theme from scratch (something I’ve never done before), and that way I can make it exactly how I want it to be.
And as for the AJAX stuff, it does seem really cool, but recently I’ve been wondering how/if that affects SEO/search engine friendliness.
BTW, I’ve actually used K2 on both of my podcast websites, so it’s not like I’m abandoning it completely
Jeremy responded on 11 Feb 2007 at 7:52 am #
If you’re going to code a theme from scratch, I’d highly recommend you using the Sandbox theme as a starting point, although it’s entirely up to you. After my first encounter with it, I’m never going to write a WordPress theme that’s not using Sandbox.
It’s really beautiful in the way that it has zillions of CSS selectors in the XHTML markup enabling you to do all sorts of crazy CSS stuff, including stuff you wouldn’t in your wildest dreams imagine doing on Internet Explorer.
Sandbox is a widgets-friendly theme. So, if I want to add some extra markup (like a banner) to the code that using only CSS won’t allow me to do, instead of modifying the Sandbox PHP/XHTML code, I’ll whip up a 30-second WordPress plugin that will add a widget that I can add to my Sandbox sidebar, which I’ll later reposition with CSS so it doesn’t appear to be in the sidebar. I’ll send you a few snippet examples if you want.
New Theme! | John Lamansky responded on 26 Jul 2007 at 11:04 am #
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