:: In.a.Mirror.Dimly ::

I’ve been itching to go with a new theme on this site for a few weeks now. After searching through a bunch of themes and finding quite a few nice candidates, I settled on Grid Focus. The design is simple, clean, and focuses on content. I’m not sticking a lot of pictures on my blog, so the print-focused design worked well for me. I’ll be customizing it over the next few days.

The text on my various pages is sorely in need of an overhaul, and I’m also working on getting the sidebar area up to snuff. I think it’s passable for now. The main reason why I left Minyx Lite 2.0, a great theme by the way, was I couldn’t use widgets to move stuff around in the sidebar. I had to drop in my clunky html and leave much of the sidebar content in place lest I wreck the code. The header also wasn’t doing it for me.

At the end of the day, I wanted a sharper, cleaner look, though Minyx did well in the clean compartment. I also needed something that was a bit easier to use for a blog design novice such as myself.

Runners up for IMD theme:

Blubbr: A clean design, but not quite sharp enough.

Visionary: Tempting with its sharp design, but I’m not quite in the magazine category.

Modicus: I have given this theme a lot of thought, but at the end of the day, it’s too minimalist for me. I fear a person without design skills, such as myself, could make this theme into a confusing jumble of text.

It’s kind of nice to be using something that’s open source. It’s like having all of the gratification of something new with none of the expense!