Whoa, what an awesome beginning of the year! After recovering from the holiday mood I quickly got to work and had this sudden idea of buying a domain name: my name. So I spent some time to look around to see where I’d register the domain and host the website.
Several options came up, in the end I chose to register in GoDaddy.com and host the website in ASmallOrange.com. More on that later. Anyway, so I bought priapurnama.me. The idea was to build a vcard website where people can quickly get connected to me. A couple of hours spent with Photoshop, Coda, Firefox and Internet Explorer resulting in this website:
Hup, that was simple.
I’ve also setup a laboratory for me to work there. It’s a Wordpress installation with dummy content from the Wordpress Theme Development Checklist and an awesome plugin to preview themes: Wordpress Theme Demo. The purpose of the laboratory is to preview my wordpress themes live, so everyone can try it and look around before (perhaps) downloading.
First theme I developed on the lab was Ronin.
Ronin. (yes, with a dot for the heck of it) is a wordpress theme with dark background. It has 3 columns, one for content and 2 for widgetized sidebars. There’s a theme options page to set the gravatar email and short bio. Here’ have a look at Ronin., live.
Next one was just finished now, it’s called Gridsomniac. This is the theme I’m currently using.
Gridsomniac’s using light background and dark text. I’m not sure if I should call this 2 or 3 columns because technically it has 3 columns but 2 are used for the post content, only 1 is allocated for sidebar. As usual, this one also has theme options page and widgetized sidebar. These are the standard these days. See the theme live here.
Note: I asked my twittter friends of what to name this theme with grid word. Some ideas came up: Evander Holygrids, Aura Kasgrids, Gridsmulat, Brigrids Bardots. My friends are supercute. I finally went with Gridsomniac coined by Budi.
I’ve submitted these themes to Wordpress Theme Directory, I hope they will be approved. I suppose there will be more themes coming up in the future, only they won’t come as fast as this. I’m thinking of one theme per month, pretty realistic, huh?
I learned a lot from developing these 2 themes, like the many things I missed when designing my previous themes. Now I know better thanks to this wplover article and of course, the theme development checklist.
So yeah, very productive month and January’s not even over yet. What about you? Anything interesting you did this month?
