Tag: Extra Stuff

What makes a Good Theme? #2

Over the last month Ive really put out an extra effort to going out and looking through alot of blogrolls. I’ve also gone to certain blogs where i know they get alot of comments and from there ive clicked on every commenter to go see what they look like.

istockphoto_1076786_artist_starting_with_a_blank_canvas.jpg What does your blog look like? Is it like mine? Plane, lots of links and a narrow readers column, 3 easily noticeable facts of my Theme. Or maybe i pay to much attention. I dont think people really care too much about how extremely cool your blog looks. Out here it seems to be all about content and community. With that in mind, What would one blog say to the other?

Chick blog - “i really like you and i want to go out for pizza sometime but I just cant seem to read you. whats the deal, dont you care?”

dude blog - “what do you mean, i post all the time, your on my stats i put you in my blog roll. arnt we going out for pizza tomorrow?”

Maybe a little over the top. But!!! If you had a choice when you started blogging, if you had more control over the look. would you have changed it? Maybe, Maybe not…

Point here is I think most people would rather read a simple empty blog and have content be the key. But its not that simple. Blogs are so easily added to that they quickly become cluttered with stickers and links and disorganized content. Im becoming a prime example.

Whats your order of importance on a blog? please expand on these topics if you can think of more.

Mine is: Content, Community, Design, Function

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Comment | February 1, 2008

Consolidation

In the last week or two Ive been trying to do both a post for a web oriented topic and a personal topic on two different blogs. It was fun but im going to consolidate.

Sorry for all the confusion around here but streamlining is my favorite thing to do. Those of you RSS people may have to set up again, but it shouldnt be a big deal.

Happy blogging and remember to keep your eyes [...] Read More

Latest Theme, MercyMe

Here it is… MercyMe

The latest theme out of the hat. It’s very simple and clean lending itself to various uses. At this point I am still cleaning the CSS so that I can offer a Public version. Check it out and Give them a Welcome.

For More :: VC/blog & Brody Harper [...] Read More

Mercy Me Blog

It has been a rough week of working out bugs and testing images and layout concepts. I love to hate it, but i love it more. Brody and I racked our brains and pulled out the old box or crayola and here’s what we got.

MercyMe is a great band, im sure you’ve heard of them. Check things out say hello read some posts and help them feel welcome in the blogging world. I think MercyMe [...] Read More

Visual Coma

As some of you may have noticed Ive been talking alot about building themes and doing work with brody. Ive been diligently hacking away at WordPress to build a solid themes. I really think that all my hard work is going to start paying off.

I’ve held out on setting up all of VisualComa because I really havnt been sure as to which direction i should take it. Im still not totally convinced on its direction, [...] Read More

First of many

Welcome to my little haven of blogging and web bits. Have a look around and check things out. This is a resource for WordPress users and Theme Designers. I am always finding new trick and, somehow, working out the simple problems the hard way.

I primarily build WordPress Themes for general blogging use, but WP offers so much more those who are interested in learning. What I hope to accomplish here is a free for all [...] Read More

WordPress hand in hand

It would appear that most of my traffic in the last day and probably today as well is all coming from Brody. (if not check it out) Brody called me the other day with all these questions about BlueHost and how to get wordpress with out .wordpress.

As you can see we busted out and he’s up and running with the bulls. We’ve still got a few bugs. (im sure you dont mind those little rolly [...] Read More

I went ahead and did it

yesterday afternoon i had this thought of a new layout, and i just couldnt help myself. it was challenging and kinda fun. the only thing I feel needs current attention is my header image. I always find that to be the hardest thing to get just right. Im too freaking picky.

Im really going to try my hardest to leave this layout alone. that should leave me with plenty of time to check out what everyone [...] Read More

hidding links

There is much I’ve been doing but little that most people would notice. Ive finally figured out how to completely alter this blog. So in the next couple of weeks there are going to be some changes. Not huge but you might find something silly.

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