The final blog change

So, after all the fiddling around with various add-ons and widgets and other fun shit, the final step for my blog was a new theme. I figured it would take awhile (theme searching can be a real pain in the ass). It may have taken 6 hours total.

Behold Suffusion! Everything can be customized with this bad boy with no need for script editing. There are enough subsections for tweaking to make me cry a little. Page layouts, sidebar/widget area structures, the size of everything, color schemes…it’s all up for grabs.

I don’t know what final options I’ll pick, but this is what I came up with just screwing around with things. I definitely like having the first couple of posts fully laid out and the rest summarized, but I don’t know if I want to go with the current Tile format, or the Excerpt format that I have coming up for any kind of a content search, for the other front page content.

All of my post categories are in a drop down menu, as are all of my blog links. That removed some stuff from the sidebar. I split the bars to either side, and shook things up a bit. I’ve got recent comments and recent tweets in a tabbed sidebar on the right, and I can do that with just about anything (those 2 kinda fit together). I can also throw stuff up under the Header, above the Footer, and in little widget boxes (that can be tabbed) in the left and right of the Header and Footer. I will attempt to avoid filling all of those spots with stuff.

The one thing I wouldn’t mind putting in somewhere is a Featured Content widget, IF I can get it set up to grab random posts from the blog and offer them up. I just need to spend some time messing around with it and see what I can do (right now, it just keeps flipping between my most recent 20 posts which seems somewhat stupid, so I’ve pulled it for the time being). Also, I want SOMETHING interesting as a background (I’m thinking Iron Sky shots…).

So, while the choices of what goes where and that sort of thing might change, I think I’ve found my theme.