Stream of Conscience

Yes, I did it again.  I forgot to post yesterday.  But unlike in other months, I’m not going to bail on NaBloPoMo.  (Well, I’m going to try not to bail.)

In my defense, I was here, on the blog.  But instead of posting, I was mucking around with the theme, trying to do something different with the sidebar.  Guess what.  It didn’t work.

I think I’ll just have to try making my theme from scratch.  I’ve done it before, with a theme tutorial by Urban Giraffe, although it had a couple glitches (my design, not Urban Giraffe’s, heh).  But now that I kind of know what I want, I think I’ll return to source and have a go at it again.  (And yes, I supported the guy by buying his book.)  The tutorial was written before the advent of widgets, but since it’s going to be my blog theme, I should know what I want to put in the sidebar, right?

Oh, that reminds me.  I need to add a few links in the sidebar, the Awesome Stuff.

June has  arrived.  That means it’s time to get into the blogging (regularly) habit.  NaBloPoMo’s theme for this month is “Heroes” and I’ve identified a few to write about throughout the month.

I decided to start with the Sadish Balasubramanian, the creator of this theme, along with many other very popular themes.  This is not one of his better known themes (in fact, it’s not even featured with his other free themes).  It’s called Senorita, and it’s the first theme I used consistently when I started blogging.  I still love its simplicity and beauty, even if it doesn’t match my blog’s title.

But it’s a very old theme.  I believe it was created in the dark ages prior to WordPress 2.0.  It doesn’t have any of the fancy new gadgets like widgets, tags support, threaded comments, or integrated image alignment.  (In fact, I had to go into the HTML editor to get the NaBloPoMo badge to align properly.)

But why should the age of the theme deter me?  After all, I do want to become more proficient with WordPress themes.  So, why not use this as an opportunity to delve into the WordPress codex and try tweaking the theme to bring it up do date?

Yeah!  That’s what I’m going to attempt do.