Today’s website updates

Sep 19

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Oh boy, I’ve done a lot with this site today. The most noticeable change is the theme. I liked “Description 2.0“, although the double sidebar, which I felt I needed, just made the thing too cluttered, and I wanted clean. Having done some shuffling around, a single sidebar is just fine. This theme is called “MoreOrange“, and if you know me, you know I like my orange! You can find credits for this theme at the bottom of the site (added my own name for modifications).

As part of having a new theme, I had to put my own stamp on the header image, which I have done, quite literally. For the record, I use The GIMP.

Oh, and this theme has sorted me out with permalinks. Each post title is the permalink; nice touch.

I found that the social bookmarking widget I was using didn’t work with the new theme, so I ended up finding one I think is better, “Sociable“.

Returning to the sidebar, I removed my social networking links from the links menu. There were too many of them, and I’m not sure it was appropriate. Anyway, I came up with something better, which was a cracking idea from my current/old site. I took all of the favicon‘s from the sites I’m linking to, and used them as the link (they have roll-over text to explain what they’re linking to). I also grabbed a WordPress widget to give me subscribe links. I’m not sure about keeping these, but they might be helpful to some people (?).

Speaking of links, I redid the blogroll. I removed all the default WordPress links, and used it for blogs I like to read; just as a blogroll should do. If you’re reading this and think I should have included you on my blogroll, just leave a comment and I’ll probably oblige.

As a final touch, I made myself up a favicon to reflect the header image. If you can’t see it, you might need to empty your cache and reload, repeat as necessary until it shows up.

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