For the first time since I started this blog, I’ve devised a new theme: Fluid Colinese. It’s based on Fluid Blue by Srini G. and uses a primarily brown and dark orange theme. Sean Potter said it reminded him of Ubuntu’s color leanings. I agree. Honestly, the blog looks as intended with the fonts FreeSerif and FreeSans installed. Both are available on most Linux distributions, and font files for Windows are linked (however, the fonts looks terrible on Windows, at least to me). It looks acceptable for Windows Vista users or XP users who have acquired the font Segoe UI. Otherwise, the body text looks alright and the headlines default to Arial, which is alright.
Also, this theme is made for WordPress 2.3, so it can use all of the widgets and whatnot. I know WordPress 2.5 is coming out soon, but the only real changes to the theme side of things is the inclusion of avatars. I haven’t decided if I want to enable them, but I’ll decide when I see how annoying they are when WordPress 2.5 is actually released.
I’m working on enabling OpenID for commenting. I’d wanted to use it for my previous theme, but I couldn’t ever get it to play nicely. My old theme was made for WordPress 1.5, I think. Anyway, I’m running into a few issues because of conflicting versions of OpenID and Yadis in the plugin source and in /usr/share/php, which is used by my own OpenID server.
You’ll also notice the addition of some widgets. I’ve added the tag cloud and some RSS feeds from sites for which I write.
I’m going to take a little time here and there and reorganize the categories, too. I’ve got some categories which have one or two posts, such as the battlefield and g15 categories. I’m also going to get rid of the Uncategorized tag left over from Ultimate Tag Warrior’s shenanigans.
If you read my blog regularly and know me, either in person or through some organization, drop me a line and we can do a link exchange of sorts. Please, though, I prefer people whom I’ve met in person and who update their blog regularly. I tend to remove links to blogs which haven’t updated in months. Really, I should just import the OPML file from Liferea, my preferred Linux feed reader.
The URL for my blog won’t change, but the RSS URL will. I’m planning to rename the blog, as it’s no longer the Flow of Consciousness it was in the past. I’m almost out of that phase of my life, so it’s time to move on to more professional and responsible blogging.
Tell me your thoughts, folks. ¿Te gusta? ¿No te gusta?