A fresh new look

One last post this month and it’s announcing a brand new look for the dot Blog and a change in the way I’m doing things. My original deMar theme was great and all but I had a longing to bring everything from tweets to photos in one place. And the Agregado theme was a perfect match. Made available for free on Smashing Magazine I thought it’d be easy to quickly change the colours (currently I’m just sporting a desaturated version). Well it was a little hassle with my lack of experience but I hunted down all the colour defining CSS files.

So if you haven’t seen this theme before let’s go for a little tour shall we?

Drop Down Menus

There are now more in depth categories, and the focus has shifted from pages to categories, you can find pages, archives, search and RSS in the top right now.

New focus

I needed everything to be in one place and now it is. The home page side bar contains all my feeds including Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo and del.icio.us. /Blog and /Portfolio have now merged as there really was no point in having two different blogs.

At the bottom

Another great thing about this theme is the built in contact form making it really easy to get in touch. Along the same lines you can find all the links of where else I’m at.

I’m working on getting the Thickbox plugin to work with the NextGen gallery which is what I used for the Portfolio pages, so they’re still out of order but I’ll get there.

Also hoping to add my own background designs and perhaps upping the contract as it’s all a bit grey currently, though I do like the design currently.

Got a nice big post coming up next week, full of great artists’ work.

Well this was just a quick update. More posts next week.