A New Theme for a New Year
Posted by mike | Filed under Meta
Almost since FoodBurgh’s inception last year, I’ve been unhappy with the theme. I had tweaked it only slightly from a blog that I maintained through college, and a number of issues and general sloppiness had crept in over the years. The theme was created with an older version of WordPress in mind and crafted to run on an older era of browsers. Add to that, the fact that I played around with some image and column sizes, and it things were a little shaky.
As of January 1 (just after midnight), that old theme has been led to pasture. The new theme was originally a minimalist design from styleshout.com and turned into a WordPress template by Linux Web Hosting (as you can see in the tagline at the bottom). I switched up some of the imagery and tweaked the style sheet slightly to better handle my content. Because it was designed to be minimal in form, my tweaks were a little bit easier to make in a clean way. It also provides a clean new look and a chance to switch up my color scheme to something a little bit brighter and more modern.
In any case, If you tend read my posts only via the RSS fee or email list, be sure to stop by the site and take a look. I’m pretty happy with my results.
January 4th, 2010 at 12:24 am
I do tend to read your posts via RSS feed, but I hopped over to check out the new design. It’s great. I love the color scheme and the gray city outline. It’s minimal but has character, great job! :)
January 4th, 2010 at 12:35 am
Love the new theme!