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Building something from the ground up is difficult, but adapting someone else’s work and make it into your own is not a easy task either. I am talking about blog themes. It’s been more than a month since I launched version 4.0 with a new theme on a new platform. So far I am extremely happy about the result. Of course nothing is perfect, I am constantly trying to improve it.
Since the launch about a month ago, one area I have been trying to improve is the navigation of the blog. Arthemia 2 is a fantastic theme, it’s clean and simple, and it just really fit the style I am aiming for. But for some odd reason, there’s no navigation method on each individual post to go to the next or previous post. So after playing around the codes, I was able to add that in. In addition, I also added tags info on each post on the main index page, so that all the posts is even more inter-connected.
Another area I was improving was to make the blog more dynamic. The (free version) Arthemia was quite static, nothing was really moving. (unlike the Premium version, which has a scrolling feature on the side – but since I am being cheap and not buying someone’s theme, so I’ll have to work hard to make something my own~) The first thing I was changing was to give the blog a rotating header. The initial version require visitors to manually reload the page to see the different headers, but soon after I worked a script into the header to make it automatic. I also added a “featured box” on the sidebar to display the graphics from some featured posts. It took quite some time to customize it into the style I want. (I even replaced the link icon into the info icon from Coverflow in iPhone!)
I am still quite an amateur when it come to web design, therefore just the fact that I was able to figure out what other people did on their designs and tried to recreate similar features is not only fun but self-satisfying!
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