This is crazy! :wacko: I don’t think we had a single snow day last year. This year, so far we’ve had like… 8? I’m not sure of the correct number, but no school again today. It’s nuts! I’ve GOT to get a handful of kids to finish their online assessments by FRIDAY at noon!

Finally. My new theme is up! I kept waiting because I wanted to have all of my content pages finished. I have a few pages under “Hobbies” that aren’t ready yet, but I couldn’t keep putting the new theme off anymore. I’m too antsy and want some feedback from people. I’ve still got lots of tweaking to do, but I think I’m done with the majority of the major things. I would love your feedback: positive or negative. love: What do you like about it? What doesn’t work for you? What would you like to see?

I’ve learned a lot in the past year. It was almost a year ago (it will be a year March 21st!) that I switched from CuteNews to WordPress. Boy, was it scary at first! I went from messy code, iframes, and tables to this complex database driven content management system. Whoa. With the help of my friends at The Quilting Bee and a lot of trial and error, my website has now evolved into something I hope is more organized, uniform, and enjoyable for visitors.

Real quick, here are some things new with this theme: With this particular theme I have worked a lot more with different classes and ids. I’ve done a lot of work with the CSS file and tried to rely on CSS more than just sticking things into the actual page itself. (Did that make sense? I hope I said that right.) I’ve also installed a lot of really nifty plugins (including a cool 404 page!). I spent way more time on creating the graphics for the layout. Things are better organized I think. I added a lot more “me” I think as far as content goes and a lot more “stuff” in general (with more to come!). I also made some cool icons and smilies.

I’ve spent a great deal of time checking my site in various browsers (Firefox, IE 6 and 7, Opera, and Safari). I’ve got a few little things to tweak in IE, Opera, and Safari but for the most part, my site is looking okay in various browsers. I’ve also spent a lot of time going through and re-validating all of the pages. I think I’ve caught all the errors now. A lot of the errors I had were silly things that creeped into my code because I was exhausted while working on my site for hours at a time.

One of the things I am most proud of (and probably no one will care as much about) is my registration page. If you click to login to my site or register, you will see a lovely login box that matches my site. I absolutely hated that generic WordPress blue one that’s the default. It wasn’t anything major to change that, but I just felt so excited when I got that all sorted out.

The next thing on my list (apart from finishing up the “Hobbies” pages and tweaking things) is to blog more often!! I have tons of ideas of things to blog about. Hopefully I can some up with some things to make you think or entertain you.

I’m so tired!! It’s about time for me to go to sleep now. Please, please please give me some feedback on my new theme! I’d really like to know what you honestly think. I know some people are going to hate the rainbows, and that’s fine, but I’d like as much feedback as possible. And if you see something that doesn’t look right to you - let me know! (I think my Gravatar plgin may not be working?) I may have missed something. :wacko: Staring at code can make you crazy. I am not a php ninja like some.