So I’ve decide to just use an existing theme and customize it for myself. The current theme is based on the beautiful Modicus by Robert Ellis from Upstart Blogger who has designed some great themes for WP. I wanted a more clean, simplified look and I think this works well. Let me know what you guys think and if you experience any issues.
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Eeeesh. I’ve go to say, this theme is sort of cluttered and really busy. So many lines and it’s really hard to figure out where stuff is. All the links and bold and everything distracts far too much. I really liked the old one.
This is really quite nice. Very design-y, I like it a lot. It’s all very clean and easy to read and sift through.
Personally preferred the simplicity of the previous one. Agree that it’s not as clear, plus you are forcing a 1024 layout for the sake of a small column to contain a small amount of content.
Sorry to be negative.
nice one; keep on blogging. — Peace Sebastian :-)
I liked the simplicity of the other too 
But I dont not like this one.
Overall very nice, i’d perhaps suggest balancing the two sidebars a bit more width wise and maybe taking the misc section from the first sidebar and putting into the second.
I like the look. I’d be interested to hear why you decided against making your own theme; and if you wanted to throw in some gems about how you approached modifying an existing theme, I’d be down with that too.
The problem I have is the large pink text — it’s a size and a weight that makes me think it’s the title or something. It’s also hard to look at text that color for a long time. The multiple next/previous links are confusing — a single one would be better. There’s also a lot capital and bold letters on the page, which are distracting from the content itself.
I miss seeing the prominent logo…but i like your logo update w/ cobalt blue
Now I sound like my clients…
Change is good.
The pink copy.
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Nice theme. I recently went through the same thing and even went so far as to install Moveable Type and drupal, but ended up sticking with wordpress too.
Comment by Thomas Fitzgerald — September 3, 2007 @ 1:59 pm