What you see here is the result of evaluating several Wordpress themes out there. This blog has been around since April of 2006. It was about time for me to freshen up the look and functionality of the site. I chose the Cutline 1.1 theme because of its clean look and easy to update stylesheets. I wanted a fast loading site which displays the content in the most direct way possible.
What’s new?
On the backend, I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.1. This upgrade included some security fixes along with some nice to have features. I’ve added the popular posts section on the sidebar to show first time visitors the site’s best content (all of them of course were written by Elaine).
Where did that go?
I’ve removed a few plugins such as the Ultimate Tag Warrior. This was a nice to have feature which wasn’t being used by majority of our readers. It gave the old design “web 2.0″ kind of look, but frankly it just added clutter to the site. It actually increased the load times of this blog. You may also noticed that the YPN ads have been removed from the sidebar. They were not doing anything except take up much needed space.
For those of you who are first time readers of this site, here’s a screenshot of the old design:
Please provide your input on the new design in the comments section below. Does it suck? Something not working correctly? Is there a feature you miss? Please let me know. Just remember I’m not a web designer so my creative talents are somewhat limited (hence the generic header title).
Now back to our regularly scheduled blogging….
2 responses so far ↓
1 Chip Kruthoffer // Feb 9, 2007 at 8:29 am
Can you tell me how are you getting AUTHOR to display on the post? it isn’t working for me, following the directions for the previous version of Cutline. Thanks!
2 Marlo // Feb 9, 2007 at 10:01 am
Hi Chip,
It’s rather simple. There were three files I had to edit in order to get the Author to display.
Find line 12, replace:
<!-- by <?php the_author() ?> -->with:
by <?php the_author() ?>Find line 12, replace:
<!-- by <?php the_author() ?> -->with:
by <?php the_author() ?>Find line 22, replace:
<!-- by <?php the_author() ?> -->with:
by <?php the_author() ?>That’s it! Please let me know if it works or if you have more questions. Thanks for stopping by!
-Marlo
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