Tweaking My Theme

Yes, I've been tweaking my theme. I moved the search box and the Feedburner subscription links to the header. I moved recent posts to the left top of the sidebar.

Yes, I know I'm missing some of the popular doo-dads that seem to be on a lot of blogs. I'll get around to it (and don't you dare send me a round tuit or I'll publicly humiliate you).

Let me know what you think of the changes, okay?

Oops! Forgot to mention that I added the plugin to remove the "nofollow" attribute for comment links. You can get it at: Semiologic

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February 20th, 2007 By RT Cunningham | Categories: Blog Changes | Tags: DoFollow, feeds, header, nofollow, recent posts, RSS, search, WordPress | Full Article Feed | Summary Article Feed | Comments Feed | Full Articles by Email | Respond | Trackback URL

2. Matthew Jabs on February 20th, 2007 at 1:19 pm (Reply)
   
   

   Hey RT.
   I like your new theme better. Nice & clean, easy to read, and simple to navigate.
   My suggestion would be a light colored background in your sidebars to differentiate between sidebar and main content.
   PS…what does the nofollow accomplish?

3. RT Cunningham on February 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pm (Reply)
   
   

   The normal nofollow stops comment spammers from getting better page rankings or search engine standings. If you have a good anti-spam system in place, the nofollow attribute penalizes good commenters. With the "dofollow" plugin, you remove the penalty. The commenter's link should show up as an inbound link on your dashboard.

4. RT Cunningham on February 20th, 2007 at 1:35 pm (Reply)
   
   

   As far as the colors go… I suck at design, so I wouldn't know where to start.

5. Matthew Jabs on February 20th, 2007 at 1:57 pm (Reply)
   
   

   In the CSS style sheet, you would just change the white color in the sidebar background to whatever color you want (some kind of light gray, something to differentiate)
   For example, in your style sheet:
   #left_side {
   margin-top: 10px;
   float: left;
   width: 160px;
   background: #F1F6FE url(images/side_bg.gif) bottom left repeat-x;
   }

   #F1F6FE is my sidebar background color. Yours is probably #FFFFFF

6. RT Cunningham on February 20th, 2007 at 2:13 pm (Reply)
   
   

   Okay… I'll try anything once.

7. Matthew Jabs on February 20th, 2007 at 2:29 pm (Reply)
   
   

   RT…I like it.

8. MrCorey on February 20th, 2007 at 6:48 pm (Reply)
   
   

   I like the color picker extension for Firefox. If I see a color that I want to use, I use the picker to tell me what color it is. Gimp, and I'm sure Photoshop, etc have one too.

9. RT Cunningham on February 20th, 2007 at 8:00 pm (Reply)
   
   

   I installed ColorZilla. It seems to do the trick.