Since Media Temple have updated their 1-Click Applications to make WordPress 2.7 available as an upgrade, I upgraded WordPress and decided it was time for a new theme.
I won’t lie, I pretty much nicked it from one of the themes available on iWeb. I figured if people are allowed to build websites with this theme for their own use I should be able to get away with falling short of stealing it. To be fair, it was hard work to make the theme WordPress friendly and generally easier to understand when looking through stylesheets and templates.
I guess I should also have tested it on other browsers on other platforms (so far I’ve tested it only on the latest versions of Safari, Firefox and Opera on Mac OS X) and God only knows what it’ll be like on Internet Explorer, for those still brave (read daft) enough to use it!
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I’m on the Uni computers at the moment. I’ve just looked at my theme and it doesn’t look nearly so nice on a CRT monitor with fingermarks and God knows what else smeared across the screen. I can tell you the keyboards aren’t that clean either… So you might see some changes afoot… like prompting the ISS to get proper screens.
Or perhaps I should have taken heed of my own advice: I’m writing for the 34SP WordPress blog with the intention of directing poor misguided folk through WordPress installations; creating and uploading themes and picking out plugins for their site. I’m not exactly sure why I am doing this: I am meant to be getting free hosting for this but it does not seem to have materialised…
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The SDC results were announced yesterday, and I managed a point with one of the judges for one of my designs! Not the best of results, but then again it wasn’t the worst of results.
I was a little sad for CITYscape, which failed to score with the judges, and I felt that was my best chance. I think the problem was that a part of the design failed on the live preview, which was extremely annoying, but that’s life I guess. And the point is, I’ve learnt from the competition, and I’ve corrected that mistake, and released Chocolate Vanilla for Sandbox, so onwards and upwards!
But for now, I’m taking a break… my right wrist is beginning to click again. 
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I am back after a week in a place far away, where there is no Internet (yes, that’s right, my grandparents’ house). I came back to a miserly three pieces of post and about fifty emails. Once sifted (which didn’t leave much), I started to set about my usual business. So I was pretty bored for much of the day.
I did however manage to listen to all of Dream Theater‘s Systematic Chaos. It improves with every listen, so I’m pleased with it.
And in the meantime while I was away in that parallel universe – the extremely localised heat-wave-cum-sauna – that is my grandparents’ brand-spanking new bungalow, the SDC has been hotting up.
I’ve had a look at "the competition" 
. And I don’t stand a chance! However, I’ve been pleased with the responses so far, and I’m thinking about working further on some of my themes. But we shall see! 
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I was thinking last night how you can measure the richness of a country’s history by the number of and by the degree by which its people are eccentric. Britain has no shortage of mad people: we are famous the world over for talking incessantly about the weather. And having produced the likes of Boris Johnson, Rowan Atkinson and my grandparents, that is the argument pretty much won.
This week, I shall be visiting another part of this country. This is my dad’s old stomping ground – Boston, Lincolnshire. I shall be staying there this week with my (maternal) grandparents. So I won’t be blogging any more until I’m back. Sorry!
Meanwhile, submissions for the SDC have now been closed. I’m hardly going to set the world alight with my three designs (apparently that’s not cheating…!), it was a good lesson for me to try to envisage and implement my own design to an existing theme… three times.
As for releasing my designs, I don’t know. Perhaps it’s best to see how well received they are before contemplating unleashing my monstrosities to the world. I guess I’m saying "If you like it, tell me", then I’ll do something about it. They will appear on the Designs page on 2nd August, I believe.
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