News: Redesign (Beta)
Over the last week I’ve taught myself enough about CSS and WordPress to turn my own design into the WordPress theme you see before you which I have nicknamed “Chiclet-Beta”. I didn’t know what a “div” was last Sunday but today I’ve got a functioning blog of my own design.
Please stand by as I tweak the text and correct some of the alignment issues. If something doesn’t work or any of the content is broken please send me an email and I’ll get right on it.
The largest task ahead is to insert all the exceptions for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, but I’m not in much of a hurry; While IE is the browser with the largest install base it’s used by a very small portion of my visitors (illustrated below).
Browser / OS Statistics For The Last 30 Days
About The “Chiclet-Beta” WordPress Theme
“Chiclet” is designed to be a clean, white WordPress theme that features the use of bold icons and graphics with pixel-level detail. The theme name is inspired by the Chiclet chewing gum (produced by Cadbury Adams), which the category icons next to each post resemble.
The theme is designed to exude minimalism and it accomplishes this through the use of icons instead of text and the elimination of many blog fixtures such as calendars and blog rolls. The font face used throughout the theme is Helvetica Neue.
The theme is currently in “beta” and development is on-going. It is my first CSS webpage and first WordPress theme and it was coded by hand.
Thanks for visiting and most importantly thank you for your patience while I work out the bugs in my new theme!
Wow, knowing that such a talented designer doesn’t know CSS and HTML makes me not feel as bad looking at your work as i did before. I’d be happy to help you w/ any CSS or HTML… don’t fall prey to “divitis” as it is very common when you start to get into standards based design. But it’s very un-semantic.
Yes, everything you see here I learned in the last 5 days. Thanks for offering your guidance, so far I think I’ve figured my way out of most of my conundrums but there is a lot more of those ahead.
I have a background in print design but I’m more of an illustrator than a designer.
I’m curious to know which version of IE most of your IE visitors are using.
I’d like to know too but Google Analytics doesn’t provide that depth of resolution. I may be able to capture more information when I add some “if IE” routines to my pages.
Oh nice new website, it’s more clean just finish the comment design and i love it
You website featured on the blogolist of GuiPulp.com
Thanks alot!! The comments do need some design lovin’… I’ll be researching that next!
hey can you please share your css learn resources with us ??
Ok, that’s a good idea. I’ll work on a post about it!