I did it! I redesigned my website. I got rid of the skins and everything. I pulled a design from and ported it to WordPress. It took a lot of tweaking to get everything the way I wanted it; instead of one big content box I wante one box per post, and I wanted comments and the reply section to have their own boxes as well. I did a bit of tweaking to the CSS for blockquotes and list items, although I wasn’t able to come up with a way to use the fancy quote graphics from in a manner that would be backwards-compatible with old posts on my site. But I got my fancy corners, it’s somewhat shiny, my wife said it was very easy to read, and in general I’m just very proud of myself.
The only thing I don’t like is that it’s only two columns. I realized there is a lot of content I’d like to cram into sidebars. So I might wind up switching to something three-column eventually…but for now I get happy just looking at the new design, so I’ll be using it for a little while. Oh, and I managed to get in there too! So whatever you see in the “right now” block really is from the date/time it claims to be.
(LiveJournal users and RSS readers, click here to view the design.)
good on ya, looks nice!!
Nice clean look!! .. I like.
Looking good!
Thanks for the link to the OWD.org site. I found it very useful.
Long live open source! I used OSWD.org for my site design.
I saw the original design and this one and I love what you did. I am really happy when bloggers personalize their blogsfrom known designs – when it’s allowed.
Congrats!
Looks great!
I think your ported layout looks nice.