Last night I updated the look and feel of my entire site. I want to give a big shout out to Chris Pearson, who developed the excellent Thesis theme. The look of all three components of my site (portfolio, photoblog, and this blog) is based on Chris’s work.
There are something like fourteen billion WordPress themes out there. Most of them are pretty cheesy, honestly, so it was very nice to run across one that had an inherently appealing structure and typography that’s about as good as is possible on the web.
I’ve done quite a bit of customization on the template (mostly moving the sidebar to the left and creating a solid-color background), but most of the credit for the visual design goes to Chris. Thanks, Chris!
P.S. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the redesign!
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Dude, this is so badass, I don’t know what to do with myself. I mean, I definitely expected some very capable people to latch onto the theme and do amazing things with it, but this is just so well done… Wow. I love how you’ve really played to the inherent simplicity of the theme, and in my opinion, you’ve really brought out the very best aspects of it. I’m all about this free-flowing, unencumbered look, and I simply can’t say enough good things about your work here.
I’m getting ready to publish a new “Thesis Gallery Showcase” page, and if you don’t mind, I’m gonna toss this site up on it. Frankly, I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Looks great. Simple and elegant.
In the inimitable words of Gary Coleman on Different Strokes, ‘how’d you do that, Eric?’
@Chris / @Dylan: Well, shoot! Thanks a bundle! I will be very happy to appear in your showcase.
@BlogMediaGroup3:
Well … you can certainly look at my
custom.cssfile. That will tell you most of what you need to know.The core of the full-height solid-color background technique comes from Ruthsarian. I did hack on the header and footer files a bit to make the styles fit in. FYI I just became aware that IE6 screws up the layout if the screen width gets too narrow. I haven’t had time to look for a fix for that. Gotta love IE6, don’tcha?
Update: I finally found a fix for the IE6 wonkiness. Should be much better now.
This is gorgeous! I’m a new WordPress user who is much more of a coder than designer, and I’ve finally decided that just because I can hack my own theme together doesn’t mean I should!
Anyway, I’ve been toying with getting Thesis but just wasn’t sold until seeing your site. I love how you’ve made something uniquely yours while retaining the aesthetic simplicity and the integrity of the markup. Kudos!
(You should hit Chris up for a finders’ fee. /grin)