New Theme in the Works

by joi on October 4, 2006

Beautiful Kentucky

As you can tell, I’ve redone the look of Self Help Daily.  The old theme served me well, but it was a headache when it came to adding pictures. 

When my husband pointed out this new theme (Cutline), by fellow-Kentuckian Chris Pearson - I knew I’d found my new theme.  It’s so clean and neat, beautiful in its simplicity.  It’s absolutely one of my favorite themes I’ve ever worked with - and, having built and customized over 50, I’m as familiar with themes as I am with coffee.  This one’s a winner.

It was really easy to change the colors around and a snap to change the great banners Chris had used to our own. I love that he has coded the theme so that the banners change on different pages. Brilliant.

I used pictures that my daughter Stephany has taken - they’re all scenes from our state of Kentucky. A few are from the Land Between the Lakes, a few are from around Owensboro and one is of our fat cat, Adam.  The one on the front page is a great pic she snapped of a rainbow stretched out over a cornfield.  When we’re riding down the road and she says, “Can we pull over a sec?” I know she and her digital camera see something.  (There was a Johnny Depp lookalike once, but I flat out refused….)

I have a feeling I’ll be using this theme on a few of my other blogs.  I’m feelin’ nothing but love for it.

Joi

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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Ashleigh 10.05.06 at 4:42 pm

Hi!

I really appreciate the clean lines of this theme too — I’m currently using the sister theme “PressRow”.

I left you a longish comment on your 21 Sept. 06 post (The ABC’s of Blogging 2) but apparently it was flagged by the ’spam catcher’ or whatever it’s called. I hope you got it.

I just wanted to commend you on your wonderful site and mention how much I enjoyed reading “The ABC’s of Blogging 2 article” in particular.

Keep up the excellent work!

2 Joi 10.05.06 at 10:16 pm

Hi, Ashleigh - what a beautiful way to spell your name. Lovin’ it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the kind words - you’re sweet.

I took off the Spam blocking plug in - because it did screwy things to the new theme….and I’ve had several people tell me that they had quotes that never made it through.

I learn so much from comments left, I’m really ticked that some didn’t make it!

So glad yours did, though - encouragement’s always a very welcome thing.

All my best,
Joi

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