Redecorating

September 9th, 2007 by lynnylchan under Blog Life

After literally hours of sifting through code that I don’t understand, wrestling with an image-manipulation software that I don’t know how to use and generally getting down and dirty to deliver something beautiful, my new blog design is finalised.

Advertlets approved my previous post and credited my account (yay!) but they did have one request: that I move up the banner ad. On the old theme, doing that would mean displacing my profile picture, which I am loath to do due to reasons of blog branding and identity. The answer, therefore is dual sidebars. Win-win situation! By the way, the Advertlets banner is interactive, and there’s a poll embedded in it, so please check it out.

I loved the clean white-and-pinkness of the old theme, so I went back to the same developer for this new one. It’s called Cherry Berry 2, and the site is here. The new theme is built for WordPress 2.0+, so it’s widget-ready. Those things are fun to play with, although I mainly use them to insert all my JavaScript buttons and badges on the sidebars.

I didn’t really do a lot of modification - just cosmetic stuff like colours, the font on the header picture and letter-spacing. I am slightly annoyed that the main content column seems to be even narrower than my old one, which means a lot of pictures won’t display properly. I’m not nearly as anal as some of my readers regarding this, so I’ll just leave it as an amateurish display.

In the meantime, I found a cute Firefox banner for the sidebar. Awww.