A New Theme

I’ve neglected this site a lot lately. Not only have I not been posting nearly as much as I would like, but the theme I’ve been using was looking old. It’s drab, to be honest. It also hasn’t been updated to use the latest standards in blog presentation, as well as the latest features in WordPress.

Today I decided to switch to fervens-a by Design Disease. I found it pretty quick and knew that I wanted to use it as soon as I saw it. It’s a clean design and not complicated. I like that there are page links at the top and two sidebars for me to use.

While changing to the new thene, I created an online activity page. You’ll see a link to it at the top. This is basically nothing more than an embeddable widget of my FriendFeed activity, which is perfect for the blog.

Another new feature that comes with the theme is a preview of my recent Flickr photos. You’ll see that on the right sidebar.

Anyway, I think I’m still going to make a few tweaks here and there, but I’m generally happy with the way things look now. I hope you like them too.

4 Comments to “A New Theme”

  1. Al 30 August 2008 at 12:31 PM #

    I approve. Looks much nicer than my new template modifications for Spam Resource. I always end up taking some template and custom hacking it, and I’m never quite happy with the results. I had some fun today, though, digging through Spam Resource in the Internet Wayback machine and copying a few old posts from 2001-2004 over to the current version of the blog. Yay, rants about ex-employers from 2001!

  2. Douglas Karr 30 August 2008 at 4:23 PM #

    Wow… very cool and clean! Needs a picture of ‘the’ Net Monkey, though!

  3. ScottInTheOC 31 August 2008 at 5:12 PM #

    Love the new look Matt! I did a redesign on mine as well!

  4. Jason Schlachet 31 August 2008 at 7:49 PM #

    i was surprised by the new theme. it looks super! i especially like the ‘tab’ buttons on the right.