When I created the Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog, I did a little bit of research regarding themes, but honestly, not that much. I happened upon Cutline, originally developed by Chris Pearson, fairly quickly, and determined it was more than “good enough for now”. It was a nice clean theme, and although I ended up customizing it significantly from the original, the bones of the theme were always visible.
Since the approach of the blog’s blogoversary, I’ve been on the lookout for a change. Not just for change’s sake, but to enable me to add the comment form that now appears in the sidebar. Cutline, with its two narrow sidebar columns just couldn’t accommodate the needs of that form. And then I saw what I was looking for…Thesis. Coincidentally, Thesis is also by Chris Pearson.
And then I saw what I was looking for…Thesis.
Chris recently released version 1.1, had special pricing through the end of August, along with the holiday weekend, provided everything I needed for me to pull the trigger and make the change.
FYI, this is the first time I’ve forced myself to fully widgetize my sidebar. Before, my sidebars were written into the Theme’s code, which worked just fine, but never allowed me to load up and look at other themes I might be considering. You need to be a bit of a Wordpress geek to know what that means, so don’t worry if that made no sense to you…
So here it is. If you are reading this from your feed reader, please click on through and let me know what you think. Good or bad, I’d like to hear it. I’ve got some additional minor tweaking planned, but I need access to Photoshop, which is on my office computer, so that will have to wait a few days.
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Steve - I’m liking the new look, this seems to be a hot theme this past week since it was on sale. Glad you took advantage of Chris’s sale, I was tempted… I like change and this seems to be a great fit. Love the new sidebar too!
Steve: it seems to me that everyone around the blog-o-sphere is having a make-over
Anyway, the site’s lookin’ good! I especially like the accessibility of the contact form on the upper right-hand side. Oh and Happy Blog-iversary! (or soon to be anyway)
Looks great Steve! I’m a Thesis fan (obviously) and you’ve done great work with it!
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