You may have noticed that the blog looks a little different. What’s going on is that I’m switching to another theme that is a bit more adaptable, specifically the Binary Blue package. Aside from being tricked out with a lot of cool plugins and whatnot, BB incorporates the new wordpress sidebar widgets feature so that you can arrange stuff in the sidebar pretty much any way you want by dragging and dropping. This kind of idiot-proof configurability is a life raft to someone like me, who wants a stylish-lookin’ blog but whose CSS, PHP, and HTML knowledge might generously be described as “enough to be dangerous.”
I guess I should just be thankful that the real coders out there have made the sidebar widgets breakthrough. And I am, truly. But greedy bastard that I am, steeped in the American ultra-consumer mindset and barely having returned home from the mall before I want more, more, MORE, I am already yearning for widgets that can control the other parts of a blog page. Header image widgets, menu bar widgets, footer widgets, post meta bar widgets… you name it, I wanna widget.
Oh God, even I find my rapacity disgusting. Really, I’m sorry you had to see that… kind of. I guess if I’m going to be greedy and disgusting, at least I’m doing it about blogging technology – as opposed to trampling people when the doors to the mall are unlocked on the morning of December 26th.
Anyway, returning to the point – soon (knock wood) when you click back here to C&B you will be greeted by the new, improved, widgetized layout. I’ve got the resized coffee cup header, so now all I have to do is change the color scheme of the background images to suit the coffee-flavored feel I like. And change the font. And change the format of the post meta block. And, do these things without it breaking the theme.
No problem!
Tags: coffee, consumerism, this blog, web design, widgets, WordPress
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I like the word “widget”.
widget, widget, widget!!!
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Funny you should mention it – even as i wrote the words “I wanna widget,” I had this instant visualization of the playground during recess when I was in first grade. Why then? Because speaking that phrase would have resulted in a bigger kid hoisting me up bodily by the beltloops of my toughskins courduroys and looking for something to suspend me from in that same manner.
Maybe by now, manufacturers of kid’s pants have invented an anti-wedgie widget. Velcro-release beltloops, or something like that. You listening, Levi’s? The nerds who benefit from wedgie protection will one day have the power to read your email, and/or sell access to it to the Chinese government. Now, do the right thing.
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