I decided to waste spend a lot of time updating the design. My previous theme looked okay, but it had some problems. The guy who designed it kind of hacked it all together, and that made certain plug-ins (like the email one) not work well. I cleaned up the PHP files that make up the theme - and I also added some little “pizzaz” to it.
You may have noticed that the image at the top of the page is changed. Get used to it - it will change a lot. In fact, it will change just about every time you view a page on my blog, because it gets a random image to put up there.
I also added some “expanding” sidebar items, such as “categories” or “related posts” (when you are on an actual post, related posts show up in the sidebar). Click on the little arrow to expand and contract those items.
It’s not likely I will have much spare time to make changes to the blog in the near future, so it will likely stay this way for a while.
February 6th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
wow, cool but not overbearing, nice changes. I’m going to keep reloading to see if the randomizer actaully works. Meanwhile, McBlog got some changes too, most importantly a countdown to my birthday!
February 6th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Ryan the randomizing is SWEET! but that made the title link go away, how do I get back to the main page!?
February 6th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Yeah, I had to get rid of the title so that I could use image titles… I changed the “About this site:” to link back to the main page until I can think of a more elegant solution.
Oh wait, I just thought of one. One sec.
February 6th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
I changed the single page so that it would have a link back to the main page.
By the way, if you want to make something on your sidebar only show up if it is on an individual post’s page (and not on any index or category pages), here’s how you do it:
< ?php if (is_single()) { ?>
<h2><a href=”http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/”>Back to main page</a></h2>
< ?php } ?>
February 6th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
I like that new look. I like all the different pictures that come up.