Archive for June 2007
Quick update on my time in New Zealand.
The flight across wasn’t to bad, plenty of entertainment, reasonable food and some sleep. It’s only in the past few days that we’ve got over the jet lag.
The weather in Auckland was pretty much the same as the UK when I left. After a day to recover we are now on the Kiwi Experience bus. First day canoing in the open ocean, second day zorbing (carts without engines) and last night was black water rafting.
I’ll try and stick a few pics in the gallery.
I’ve been using a customised version of the default Wordpress theme for the past 2 years and finally got bored of it. Not only do to many other sites look the same but there were problems on small screens and it didn’t degrade as nicely as I would have liked.
Since I’m not a designer I’ve had to resort to using other publicly available themes. Most of the themes on the Wordpress site have a defined width, and the others I just didn’t like. Wrong colour(s) or chosen theme. I don’t know why the designers have created themes with a fixed width, but what’s wrong with the side of the screen? Monitors are wider then they are taller.
In the end I found Clean and Mean. It has a simple design which was number one on my list of requirements, but like many others it didn’t use the whole screen. It didn’t taken me long to get it to use all the screen. The rest of the adjustments include putting the menu where I wanted it and getting the rest of the site to merge with the new theme, adding the bits I wanted and removing those I didn’t.
I’ve tested it against the major browsers and most people shouldn’t notice any problems (if you do let me know). It looks acceptable and is certainly usable on my O2 Xda Orbit which has a 240×320 resolution. There are a few bugs still to get and I’ll fix them as I see them or they are pointed out to me.
Edit: When I find a suitable image I’ll replace the background image at the top of the screen.
