I thought I would try out a new theme on this blog and see how it looks. I ran across DeepBlue from DailyBlogTips and thought I would give it a try. i need to tweak it some and it seems to have some issues with display  in IE7, but works great in Firefox.

I may have to back up and try something else, but I’m going to give this a little time to work out the kinks as I think it looks a lot better than the Semiologic theme I was running. As I’ve worked on increasing this blog’s audience I’ve found more and more things about the Semiologic theme that I just did not like. Its a very powerful theme system, I say system because Semiologic is a lot more than just a theme, but it does not seem to play well with  a lot of other plugins. As a result, It’s been a lot harder to make the changes I’ve wanted to make.

Hopefully I can work these layout issues out and start modifying this theme to meet my needs.

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There is a great little post over at Vandelay Website Design that gives 40 tips for building a wordpress theme. I have seen some of the resources before, but there are a few great links that show the nuts and bolts for building Wordpress themes. If you are working with Wordpress and need to get your head around how to build a new unique theme for your site, then you may want to check it out.

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The wordpress open source application has won the WebWare 100 award for publishing. Congrats to all the people involved in creating this great platform and keeping it free for allof us to use.

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