Fun With Themes

And PHP… and CSS…

As you can see, Gentle Readers, I’ve taken a frustration and turned it into an opportunity. Since I’ve had to rebuild this site anyway, I’ve decided to redecorate. (Again.) (Yes, I know, but I’m having fun.)

I’m using Tarski as a starting point; I like its art design, and the customizations readily available from the Wordpress Dashboard. Granted, that comes with a price; Tarski is very complex once you look under the hood, which can paradoxically hinder your ability to work with the theme. There are a LOT of Tarski-specific bits of code there… which I ran into, headon, as I tried to adapt one of my favorite WP tweaks, ColdForged’s ImageHeadlines plugin.

It’s been a challenging week. But I’m happy with how things have turned out, so far.

Next? I need to spend some quality time with Photoshop, put together a new header image. And then, there’s a structural change I want to make, converting from an archives-based retrieval to a tag-based system…

and there’s the little matter of “humane civilization”: a trope I keep coming back to, which merits discussion at length.