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I’m sorry, I think I’m lost D:

Well then, anything look different around here? I certainly hope so :P

So in a little less than 3 days worth of work, I have created my very own, from-scratch WordPress theme using this guide for the skeleton, GIMP for all of the graphics, and lots and lots of trail/error and Googling for code. The scheme I finally settled on actually fits me very well. If you can’t tell, it’s a grey/gold/brown-ish scheme with a pretty standard layout. I got a little fancier than I originally planned with how the graphics were laid out, but I must say I really impressed myself. I love the colors and tones; I kinda wanted to stay away from blue this time around since that’s what I always tend to lean towards…and it’s boring to me now -_- . The irony in all of this is that the layout actually ended up being about the same width as the old Mekworx theme; it got squished as I was screwing around with the style sheet :lol:

Anyways, the name of the theme is “Selinite”, and yes, it is available for download! You can grab it here: Selinite v1.0.

This version of the theme doesn’t have the banner; instead it has the regular text with your blog’s info underneath. It’s simple enough to add your own banner if you wish though. Please feel free to use it however you please, just as long as I get some credit! Now just to warn you, there are probably numerous issues. I’ve already spotted a few oddities that will require fixing soon. I’ll be sure to post an update to the theme when I make fixes though.

I hate to end on a sad note, but in case you haven’t heard, our beloved Espi passed away a few days ago. I had been following his blog posts at Doomworld quite a bit. He had some sort of cancer in his arm, which he had to have amputated shorty thereafter. A while after that it seemed he was doing pretty well. But then a month or so back, he was having even more problems due to the cancer spreading and causing complications. I’m not terribly sure on the details, but it must have gotten pretty bad. Unfortunately he succumbed to the cancer and died in his sleep on Saturday, 8/29/09. I would have had this theme up and running sooner, but I’ve been playing Suspended in Dusk and Back to Basics in honer of Espi. Rest in peace bud, we will all miss you very dearly ;_;

This Post Has 6 Comments

  1. Mechadon

    2 Sep 2009 Reply

    Just a test comment…blarg stoopid layout is broken on this post :p

  3. Wartorn

    4 Sep 2009 Reply

    This theme looks quite nice! :]

    Also RIP Espi :(

  4. Jimmy

    6 Sep 2009 Reply

    The new theme is indeed very nice! :lol:

    If I may make a suggestion, the text in the blog posts/comments should probably be regular instead of bold, and the line spacing might need to be a little bigger to account for the size of the emoticons. Just an idea for now, of course. :]

  5. Jimmy

    6 Sep 2009 Reply

    Also the tabs at the top don’t display correctly for me, but I guess that’s what I get for using IE7 :S

  6. Mechadon

    8 Sep 2009 Reply

    Good suggestions Jimmy! And I’m glad you like the theme too! I must have accidentally tweaked the entry style to be bold for some reason. I didn’t notice it until you mentioned it.

    About the tabs, it seems to work in IE8. I don’t know if you have a reason for not upgrading to it, but if you do then it should work there. There’s probably a few other things that don’t work right in some browsers like the text shadowing and stuff :( What I’ll probably end up doing is finding someone with more knowledge than I do to clean up the code (like the menu buttons) and then make it so that it validates in the css and xhtml. That and hopefully make it break proof across other browsers (since I only tested in Firefox and IE8). Probably someone like Agent Spork if he’s not too busy :]

    If you notice anything else, please please please let me know! It’s really hard to find bugs and whatnot by myself using just Firefox. I would really appreciate it!

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