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I found a theme that was close enough to my layout desires, and then tweaked it quite a bit. This is pretty much how I wanted my website to look, but there are still a couple things I am going to add to it.

The original theme, Logistix 3C, is based on a theme from FreeCSSTemplates.org and coded by MandarinMusing.com and HeadsetOptions.org. I then changed several of the images and a bit of the CSS for size of the header. This is almost the theme that I designed.

I want to figure out how to add additional sidebars to this theme. Maybe some sort of options page as well. I may hack some more through this code and see what I can find.

I want to try making my own WordPress theme, but where do I start? If you start with the design, then I’m done. I guess I need step two. The theme I have designed is a three column theme with a “large” footer area. It’s laid out like this:

[ Header ]
[ navigation ]
[ content ] [ sidebar1 ] [ sidebar2 ]
[ Footer ]

Pretty simple. The tricky part of doing this though is that I have no clue about PHP and not a lot of knowledge of CSS and it’s capabilities. Those are really two things that I am lost with. If anyone is out there that knows what they are doing, please leave a comment giving me a starting off point. I would really appreciate it.

I’ve been trying to find a new theme for my website. I just tried about 10 new ones a few minutes ago, and I just didn’t really like any of them. I have tinkered with making my own, but I don’t really know where to go after I make a preliminary design. I do like my current theme, gridlock, by hyalineskies.com, but I’m starting to want something more personal. I like more of a white, open theme with one of those “fat” footers. I also like to have a couple sidebars. I would like to have all of them, the two sidebars and the footer to be customizable with widgets. Is there anyone out there, that I can provide a design for that can create a wordpress theme for me? I’m more than willing to provide a permanent link back to your website. If it’s something you would like to do, please contact me on my contact page, or leave a comment here in this post.

Thanks!

I don’t really have a lot of posts here on my website, but several of my older posts are getting several spam posts. I’ve normally been letting the Akismet plug-in remove the spam for me. I’ve had it installed for a few months now, and my captured spam is at 668. I know it’s not a lot, compared to other sites, but it’s spam into posts that are months old. I was reading TechCrunch the other day and they were talking about how they average about 15,000 spam posts, per day. They had the same problem I did, spam comments in old posts.
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I’ve just updated the site with a new look. This time, I’m running a theme called GridLock which is created by Eston Bond over at Hyaline Skies. This is a very nice looking theme using more of a Magazine-style blogging layout, which I really like. Eston was even nice enough to include a PSD of the logo image to customize as needed. I change the color and font and also threw in my own logo. I think it looks rather nice now. I’ve also done a little customize of the header navigation and sidebar. Adding more links for access to my older posts. I think it’s looking great so far.

I’m going to try to start updating the site more often. Do some reviews of some of the newer gadgets that I have around the house. Try to write up a few articles or something. Please keep an eye out for some upcoming material from this site.

This site has had a double update to it.
#1: WordPress 2.1 has been released. Some new features have been added and other security updates as well.
#2: The Tarski theme has also been updated. This one also has some new features as well and is updated to work with WP 2.1