New Look, Same Great Taste

Some of you have noted already I’ve changed the theme of this site. Don’t be alarmed, I’m not happy with it yet, either! 🙂

The things I wanted out of a new theme:

• good blockquote and code tag handling. The old theme didn’t do them right, which sucks when you’re a sysadmin. 🙂
• better readability. The old theme was gray on white, I wanted to go more black & white, higher contrast. I want the visually impaired friends of mine to be able to read my blog more easily.
• 100% widget compatible. Widgets are cool.
• a decent layout where I can experiment with ads. Most of my readers come in via a feed, but I get a lot of Google hits on certain pages, and I’d like to take advantage of that if I can.
• a layout that supports Alex King’s Popularity Contest and Share This plugins. This isn’t completely there yet (the Share This icon gets places in a weird spot) but it’s a lot better. In the future I’d like to have a sidebar display of my popular posts.

I’m now using a modified Suhweet 1.0 theme. It has the added benefit of allowing “featured” posts, which are headline sorts of things. I’m not sure how much I’ll use this yet, but I like it as an option.

There will be tweaks over the next few days as I get things fixed. If something is wrong let me know. As always, thank you for reading. I appreciate it!