clivemurray.com

Well, I quite like this new look.

Since moving to Wordpress, I haven’t had time to redesign the thing so it’s a standard Wordpress theme shoved straight in, and having tried out  roughly 5 bajillion themes, this was the one I liked the most. I like the faux-newspaper look and the typography is pretty good for the web - bearing in mind you basically have 5* font choices for websites, it’s things like line-height, letter-spacing and use of case that make the difference, and I think this theme uses all of those tools well.

There’s a couple of things I need to do to be happy with it though. For one thing, my blog posts go back as far as March 2003 (at which time I was running on Greymatter) and therefore the Archive list over there in the sidebar is very long. This needs converting to a calendar-type view to take up less space, which I’m sure is very easy in Wordpress. I just haven’t had time to look at it yet.

Then I shall bung into the sidebar a Flickr badge and my last.fm recent tracks feed to give the thing some personalisation, and following that it will be time to add some WP pages containing some of the content that I dropped when I moved to WP - basically an about page, some stuff about the band and my music.

Then that will be it for now. I may change the theme somewhere down the line to suit my needs better - perhaps using sIFR headlines or something natty - or I may not.

So there you go.
–c.
* Times, Georgia, Arial/Helvetica, Verdana,  Courier.