While it may not look like much, I’ve already invested far more time than I had hoped to make this transition, and there are many items yet to address.
The site is running WordPress, which provides a well-used blogging framework so there is a ton of support out there and even an app to allow posting from mobile devices (writing from the iPad now).
The theme I’ve chosen is Chameleon from Elegant Themes. I’ve done quite a bit of hacking of this for-purchase theme at this point. Mostly to remove bells and whistles, which are likely what I had paid for. Oh well, I like where the design is heading and the back-end is proving nicely hackable; a characteristic lacking from most free themes.
I do want to do something different with the site header. Perhaps go back to rotating images from my travels as I had on the old design, but with photos more recent than 2007.
Color and spacing-wise, I’m pretty pleased for now.
The bulk of the remaining work is migrating over static pages (actually pretty easy), and figuring out what I’ll be doing for image hosting.
If you have any thoughts or spy any bugs (I know there is a display issue on phones), please let me know!
Comments
The size of the text and lack of contrast makes it difficult to read, even on a 24″ monitor.
Where the heck is the picture coming from?
Oh, oh… can we have email comment notification??
Also, paying for something based on perception of value when there are likely perfectly good free alternatives is the iOS way!
Did I miss any punctuation marks?:;*&&#^@#_@#*)*
I fully understand an Android user not wanting to pay for something that might save them time and frustration.
Gravatars. Going to leave them on for now.
Will add e-mail notification today.
Will take a look at it on some more devices and consider changes.
Easy to read on my phone but not work (plus screen) or home laptop. Must be something with the contrast of them. I think one or two shades darker gray would be a big improvement.
You now have e-mail comment notification.
hard to read on a PC. gray text and white background.
Darker font colors everywhere. CSS fun at 3:30AM!