Did a little work on my blog’s theme to bring it up to speed with WordPress 2.7. Been using the same theme with a few modifications since WP 1.5 so it was time for a little refresh. List of changes:
- New font and font sizes.
- Reset all padding and margins. This made it easy to get consistent spacing across the entire site using margins only.
- New comments output with gravatar support. Using the new wp_list_comments function with a custom callback to separate trackbacks.
- Moved header text down so the tails of the Y’s go into the background of the main column, that’s the extent of my creativity.
- Category and tag pages only show excerpts now.
- Edited robots.txt and sitemap.xml to avoid Google indexing duplicate content on archive pages.
- Increased total container width to 895px, my stats show only about 1.2% of people who visit my blog are on 800 x 600 so there’s no point in designing for them anymore.
- Added code to show Google AdSense to visitors coming straight from a Google search. Did that about a month ago, I’ve made $7 in February so far.
How’s my avatar?!?!
Whoa, text in comments box = super small.
Should be fixed now. I converted everything to use em’s instead of pixels and the textarea didn’t like it for some reason. Hardcoded it to 12px.
A nice simple, clean wordpress design – nice. I upgraded to 2.7 a few days ago and am pleased I did.
Much better!
I say pull the “Geeky Weekly” up at the top so it doesn’t touch the rest of the “white space” of the body. :)
How did you add the AdSense display for Google search visitors? I’d like to do the same thing.
I like that better, cut the header height down from 115px to 60px. No point in wasting space on a totally uninteresting header.
Looks good!
I’m a big fan of compressed headers, one of my biggest pet peeves is when a blog/website header takes up 25+% of the page, it’s wasted real estate especially with all the 16:10 monitors.
Overall the site fonts and layout look much better than before. I guess I forgot to mention about the site search box button earlier but it appears to be resolved now.
Yeah my font sizes and margins/padding were all over the place before. Now there’s 2ems around the main content and 1em between everything else. Verdana seems to be a bit easier to read when compared next to Arial.
I’d also like to add… I HATE CSS… it works but it’s a bit clunky to work with. Also, I just noticed you’re pulling the wordpress.com avatars, nice.