I finally got around to uploading my custom WordPress theme. I doubt it will ever be “complete”, but it’s definitely at a point where it looks better than the current theme and the bugs are acceptable enough to throw in front of people.
I plan on writing a high level article reviewing the design process I went through. In the meantime, I only have time to post that the theme is now up and doing it’s thing. Feel free to poke around and list off the millions of holes that are most definitely present.
I was going to title this post “The Emperor’s New Clothes” but resisted.
Because you’ll fall flat on your face if you try putting both feet out at once. Let me elaborate by asking some related questions:
- Is it easier to find fault in your best 5 examples, or your most recent 100?
- Is it easier to find fault in your best 1-2 examples of each category type, or letting me choose a category and then seeing 10 examples of it?
- Are your best examples presented to me, or are they waiting for me to find them (if I can find them)?
After much deliberation and retraction on what I should do with this website, I finally decided on attempting to maintain a blog. I shall attempt to find things to write about, mainly with an eye towards usability. This could involve items I run into on a daily basis, articles that I elaborate on, or eureka moments I have that may make no sense whatsoever to anyone besides me. The point being…that I write about something.
I also intend on updating the theme of the site to better suit my personality. I find stealing a WordPress theme to be a form of cheating, but I need to start somewhere. This will give me something to do when I have inevitable writer’s block. So I have quite a bit of work cut out for me!
We shall soon see how well I fare…