Dorks And Losers

At last. I’ve finally (almost) fin­ished my D&L redesign. I’m ten­ta­tively call­ing this D&L ver­sion 4.0 (beta). There are some kinks I need to work out, but I’m just so sick of work­ing on it and still blog­ging on my for­mer theme that I just decided to switch and con­tin­u­ally tweak the theme.

Things I need to do:

1. Val­i­date the theme to spe­cific XHTML stan­dards. There are prob­a­bly lots of bugs and errors.
2. Tweak the side­bar to make it widget-ready. I’ve already done this step, but I don’t think I did it right.
3. Fix the side­bar flash slideshow. It works some­times. Or at least that first time.
4. Installl new plugins.
5. Install new Gallery2 theme for my gallery page.
6. Install BBPress to serve as my forum page.

I’m call­ing this spe­cific theme DNL 0.1 Pro. I’m think­ing about strip­ping it down to release as a free Word­Press theme that will be called DNL 0.1 Lite. I need to pol­ish it a lot before I release it. Well, that or I pre­pare for tons of criticism.

Over­all, I’m con­tent with this redesign. Obvi­ously I had big­ger plans for the redesign and for the most part, it looks like what I envi­soned. But the lim­i­ta­tions of my skills became appar­ent rather quickly. It took a cou­ple weeks to study and learn PHP and spe­cific Word­Press code. I think design a good theme, but I can’t code for crap­sake. Plus, my Pho­to­shop skills are super limited.

I think this design­ing themes will be my new hobby. Well, if it doesn’t become my new hobby, it’s because I suck at it and gave up.

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