How do you like Funny’s new look? Week or so ago, we converted to the Thesis WordPress theme, a creation of DIY Themes. Fellow PF blogger and all-around clever dude Jesse, proprietor of PF Firewall, suggested and installed it and then made it click with Funny’s 1,614 posts, 6 pages, 54 categories, 424 tags, 7,495 comments, and 16 plug-ins. Getting this to work in one short weekend: IMHO, pretty magical!
Jesse does web page consulting as SplycedVentures.com. He certainly made this conversion easy. If you’re interested in adjusting your site or in creating new, customized sites, give him a holler. For a modest quarterly fee, he’ll also provide light housekeeping for your site and answer questions as they arise.
Thesis lends itself to all sorts of decorative manipulation, but the last ten days have been so hectic in these parts that I haven’t had time to play with it. Plus I tend to be a little scared of dorking up things that have to do with code. But Thesis provides some options for the technically challenged, and so I fiddled with it a bit.
Thought it would be kewl to have the header show as red, with the kinda Wedgewood blue we used to have as the old theme’s main color appearing when you mouse-over it. That blue is the same color as the links. Then the decorative color in the first few words of paragraph one and at various other points in the body copy is the same hue as the red in the Funny about Money header. It’s a little brighter than the generic dark red I’ve been using, which some readers perceive as dim brown.
So bright, as a matter of fact, that against the white-white background it was pretty eye-piercing. After some experimenting with background colors (some extraordinarily unfortunate!), I’ve come to rest on an ivory white. For the time being…
It’s hard to tell how this will look from the reader’s point of view. The MacBook I’m working on has a bluish cast to its monitor, so colors are a bit inscrutable.
Anyway, so far I like it. Thesis has a lot of SEO options, said to be very effective. It’s easy to use and, I’m told, easy to customize. It’s not the radical change I was contemplating—the newness effect is fairly subtle, I think. Maybe too subtle… Has anybody noticed?
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I think the ‘Funny About Money’ header is a little generic. I thought you used to have something a little more snazzy. Other than that, it’s a pretty good start.
@ Money Beagle: Believe it or not, it’s the same header in the same font in the same size in the same place. Mouse-over it and you’ll see the old color. A rectangular block that was barely visible ran under it. That’s been replaced by a rule.
At the outset, Jesse left the main font color black, pending whatever ideas we might come up with. No one even noticed the change…or at least, not so’s they’d get worked up enough to mention it. 😀
Hey I’m just happy to help 😉 I think Thesis will serve you very well.
I am glad I made a valuable connection for 2 awesome people.
I noticed right away that you were using Thesis. How do you like it so far?
@ Mrs. Accountability: It’s pretty easy to play with. But I’m glad Jesse put it online and made himself available to answer questions!