Metaplanar Babel

I’ve been thinking for a while that I really wanted to design my own template for my site, rather than adapting someone else’s to fit. I’ve been poking around in CSS for a while, but I’ve never really done a full page with it, so this will be a great learning experience. Mostly, though, I just want a change, and none of the ready-to-go templates out there quite have what I want. Plus there’s always this drive to actually add something of my own, rather than simply borrowing someone else’s work. I’ve done a fair amount of work on the ‘zen’ theme that I currently use, but it’s still mostly someone else’s design.

I found a nifty photo yesterday over at the stock.xchng that I’ve fiddled with and like a fair amount, so I’ll probably use that. Managed to get a very basic 3 column layout up and mostly running last night from scratch (gotta love notepad, ya?), so I’m pretty confident that I can actually do what I’d like to do. What should be fun is looking into all the template tag options in Wordpress and seeing if I can come up with something a little more interesting/readable than what I have now. Coincidentally, Brendan posted an article yesterday about his recent site update that has a few resources that I think will be quite helpful, as are his own insights into how his new design works.

Anyway, if you happen to drop by and things look a little weird, that’s just because I’m fidding around with stuff - don’t worry, it’ll get cleaned up soon enough.