Themes, thilly.
May 20, 2011Today I am sitting at the local coffee shop with my MacBook to catch up on some work. Somehow that old joke “you aren’t really writing if you aren’t somewhere where everyone else is writing so that people can see you writing… etc” has become true.
The days have been so full of everything else that I felt the need to get out into view to force myself into the blogoshpere.
What’s on tap for me today? Themes.
I have a few clients that I _might_ have been pushing off because it meant sitting down and selecting free WordPress themes for them. Not that this is a bad thing, you understand, its perfect for the budget conscious person who just wants things set up for them to take over and run with it. The real issue is that I love poking through the themes and letting the minutes, no hours, slide by. And then again, there are the themes that I just love (like this one Neat! by Topi Peltonen) and have trouble not using again and again. Oy, it can be so hard to focus!
WordPress has introduced a new, beautifully designed, free theme called Vertigo. In their own words “It makes great use of WordPress post formats. It has a charming, hitchcockian typeface for site and post titles. And it’s dark.”
OK, forget that the use of the “Hitchcockian” makes it appealing enough, just relish in a theme inspired by the design work of the late Saul Bass, Art Goodman, and Dave Nagata, that lets you set your own colours for links among its other shining features.
How to change your Theme
From your Dashboard>select Appearance (lower left column) and viola! You are at Manage Themes. This area displays the current theme you are using at the top and allows you to browse the theme gallery. Don’t be afraid to preview as many as you wish, nothing will change until you click on Activate.
