Upgrading to WordPress 2.2

• Posted: July 12, 2007
• |
• Author: Chris Murphy
• |
• Filed under: Design, Developement, General
• |
• Tags: No tags set for this entry.

I've been talking about designing a new WordPress Theme, and though that was months ago, I have finally found a little bit of time to put some thought and design into a new Theme. About the same time, the good folks over at WordPress.org decided to release a new version -- I like new versions. So with that in mind I am upgrading. Bear with me for a short time while this happens.

Upgrading is fun. Sometimes.

In any case I started this project off with a few goals in mind: namely to be as standards compliant in my markup as possible; simplify some of the clutter in terms of visual weight; develop greater focus on typographic legibility with consideration for the type of content on my blog; as well, I wanted to ensure that this new theme was a direct evolution of my current WordPress Theme. This last point was most important to me as so many people seem to really enjoy the current theme. Without revealing too much, I’ve kept with much of the same look and feel, design elements and typographic elements. My core fonts have changed for the better. The editorial space is wider with more white-space given to aid legibility.

The new WordPress Theme - “Lemon Twist” - addresses many of the issues that arose with the current theme (legibility being foremost amongst them); I’ll be attempting the upgrade in the next week so you may see a holding screen for a few days until I’ve worked out the bugs. Stay tuned!

• (3) Comments
• Permalink
• RSS 2.0
• 
•