Having killed my theme this morning I mentioned that I wanted to find something a little more pleasing (to my eye) than the black and green thing I was using. So, I found the download for Chaotic Soul by Bryan Deloso, and here it is.
It was a fairly old (6 months – old in WordPress terms!) theme with no support for sidebar widgets. That has now been added with simple instruction found at the Automattic widgetizing themes page.
I have changed a few other bits and pieces – a post separator, linked image styling, the header, the post data, blockquotes and the text in the footer. I also modified the single page post view as I wanted the standard sidebar instead of the custom one Bryan had defined.
Essentially no other changes at the moment, although I do want to re-style the links in the main content, possibly the title bar right at the top and I would like to see if I can either increase the text size a little or place accessibility text resizing buttons in the top of the sidebar.
So, what do you think? Do you like the theme? Is there anything else I should do? Any (constructive) responses greatfully received and props to Bryan for releasing the awesome theme in the first place!
I think a font size of at least 12px is a great idea due to the growing ammount of 24″ and bigger screens with prices dipping slowly, imagine reading this one at an extremely big resoloution!!
Absolutely. That’s something I’m gonna get onto when I am not quite so tired.
Trying hard to get the site working properly with IE at the moment. Damn IE sucks!
Thanks Adcuz!
Hey it looks nice now, nice one!
Ooh I like! The pics at the top are nice mate, nice job!
Thanks guys. :)
Yep, this is nice. I like it. Your guitar pic at the top is great, but I dont think it works with this template. Its too bright.
PS: although the colours of it are spot on. Hmm…
Thanks for the thought, and I agree. When I “threw” it up it was around 1 am and I just wanted to change both images from the standard.
Can you have a look through my flickr account and see if there’s anything you think is more suitable? I thought about one of my Spinny Tower shots but the cropping doesn’t work too well. :(
How about this one?. I can’t really look at many photos at the moment but this one spray to mind, it would maybe crop ok?
I think I am due a theme/style overhaul on my site soon, I need a dark-grey/black background-site now I think :)
PS: Spray to mind? Sprang I meant.
Thanks Daze. The only problem (as you mentioned) is the cropping. I’ll try it and see what happens. :)
Unfortunately that wouldn’t crop to anything reasonable. I went with the rigging instead. Any better?
Yes, much better. Spot on :)