Switching to Qwlim
My old theme was fun and all, but if was pretty hackish and didn’t play nicely with the iPod Touch. While designing a new theme in Mephisto is pretty straightforward I don’t really have a solid chunk of time in which to do it, what with the preparations for baby and all. But I do have enough bits of time to switch to a new theme. So I did, and it’s awesome.
I’m using Qwlim, which has most recently been written by Matt Skorina. As you can see (unless you are in a feed reader) it has a great color scheme, nice layout, and check it what happens when you resize your browser window.
No really, go ahead.
Awesome yeah? The various site boxes nicely reposition themselves depending on the available space. It’s a great technique, I will have to steal it.
You may notice that the article tags don’t really factor into this page. They are still around of course, just not utilized. I may bring in a tag cloud into one of the boxes (or a new tag cloud box) when I have the time, but I really dig the layout as is.
In place of tags, this theme more heavily uses the article categories. Up to now I really only lightly used the categories, but I’ll probably try using them more in the future.
Some bits of the theme aren’t up and running yet (e.g. the theme expects a /contact page), but they should be coming up soon. I’ll also be modifying that rss icon on the left to link to the feed of the current category, not just a hard link to the main blog feed.