{"id":1855,"date":"2009-03-12T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T12:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2009-03-12T07:29:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T12:29:23","slug":"ch-ch-ch-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/ch-ch-ch-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch-ch-ch-changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you know I hate change.  Really, I do.  It took me four years to finally change my gravatar photo, for goodness sake, and it pained me to do so.  Even when I know I&#8217;m going to like the new thing better, I&#8217;m still reluctant to let go of the old thing.  (I was going to make a cheeky comment here about my marriage, but maybe we shouldn&#8217;t go there!  *smooches to Beloved*)<\/p>\n<p>Ahem, anyway, about change.  I&#8217;ve been wanting to update the blog for quite some time now.  I&#8217;ve spent hours scouring the interwebs for new WordPress themes, and, well &#8212; meh.  I&#8217;ve found some that I *almost* like.  <a href=\"http:\/\/designdisease.com\/\">Design Disease <\/a>has some good ones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quietfish.com\/notebook\/\">Andrea <\/a>has a great one on her blog) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogohblog.com\/\">BlogOhBlog<\/a> comes pretty darn close to what I want with a few of their themes&#8230; but <em>not <\/em>quite.  I&#8217;ve downloaded more than a dozen different themes to play with, but they either don&#8217;t work properly, or I can&#8217;t figure out how to customize them to suit my needs.  I even downloaded a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artisteer.com\/?p=home\">DIY theme designer program<\/a>, but after toying with it a bit I&#8217;ve figured out that I have exactly the wrong amount of knowledge &#8212; just enough to know exactly what I want, but not enough to make it so.  Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hoping.  Either you know this really great site with just the perfect theme for me that I can download and use out of the box with breathtaking results, or you have this friend who does sensational custom blog designs and is just itching for a new, low-cost\/high-affection client to add to his portfolio.  Not too much to hope for, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I want:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three-column (two sidebar) non-fixed format (do they call that &#8220;fluid&#8221;?)  I&#8217;m not sure what the terminology is, but I don&#8217;t want it the way it is now, with a box around the text and sidebar.  I want it more open &#8211; but boxes around the sidebar widgets is okay.<\/li>\n<li>The design should tend toward the minimalistic &#8212; not a lot of graphics.  <\/li>\n<li>Must be colourful:  I like the idea of multicoloured tabs across the top, and multicoloured sidebar boxes with rounded corners (or, at least, multicoloured title boxes.)  <\/li>\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t noticed (ha!) I&#8217;m all about teh Flickr lately, so I&#8217;d like a design that showcases my pictures either in the banner or the sidebar &#8211; or both!  <\/li>\n<li>It has to be fully widgetized, because I like the stuff in the sidebar and would probably add even more stuff.  (Thus the need for two sidebars.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Talk to me about blog design.  How did you pick yours?  What should I do with mine?  What do you love and hate about blog designs you&#8217;ve seen?  What should I make sure to do and what should I avoid at all costs?  And speaking of costs &#8211; premium themes are not out of the question, but they have to be pretty damn good to get me to fork out any cash, so if you know of a good site, do let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you know I hate change. Really, I do. It took me four years to finally change my gravatar photo, for goodness sake, and it pained me to do so. Even when I know I&#8217;m going to like the new thing better, I&#8217;m still reluctant to let go of the old thing. (I was going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/ch-ch-ch-changes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ch-ch-ch-changes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-asides","category-meta-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}