Posts tagged with 'theme'


New theme for old blog

A while back, well after I’d purchased the current theme for this blog, I ran across another great responsive theme on someone else’s blog (unfortunately I never made a note of whose it was, so can’t credit them). The theme is called Selfy and I’d have to say it’s pretty clean and simple. […]

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New year? Check. New theme? Check.

Over the New Year break, I decided it was time for a change here on the Algorithms for the Masses blog. Not necessarily a full-blown New Year Resolution, more a general feeling that the current theme was old in the tooth, had accumulated a whole bunch of cruft (and how!), and it was time to chuck it in the bin of history. Time for something clean, and, horror, responsive. […]

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Quickie Chalk extension for the tags issue

I mentioned in my previous blog post that the workaround I had for displaying the tags for a post vertically, rather than as a horizontal, comma-separated list, was flawed. […]

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So I get bored easily...

No sooner do I finish my quick series on customizing a Wordpress theme for Graffiti (I, II, III, IV) than I throw it all away for a — gasp — hand-written one. Yes, I got bored with the browns and went with the grays. […]

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Customizing Graffiti CMS, part IV

(In which I continue taking apart a Wordpress theme to make it work with Graffiti. Part I. Part II. Part III.) […]

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Writing and debugging CSS

Part of the job of altering the theme for this site, or indeed writing the "theme" for an ordinary page (here's my résumé, for example), is writing or modifying the CSS file (Cascading Style Sheet) to make it look good. I've used three main resources to help me do this as efficiently as I can. […]

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Still playing with look 'n' feel

As you can see when you view my blog in your browser (versus viewing it in your RSS reader, for example), I'm still playing around with the look of the new website. I've added a fixed background image (a chain link fence after a night of freezing sleet) for visual contrast. […]

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Customizing Graffiti CMS, part III

(In which I continue taking apart a Wordpress theme to make it work with Graffiti. Part I. Part II. Part IV. ) […]

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Customizing Graffiti CMS, part II

(In which I continue taking apart a Wordpress theme to make it work with Graffiti. Part I. Part III. Part IV.) […]

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Customizing Graffiti CMS, part I

There were several reasons for choosing Graffiti as the CMS for my blog, but I suppose two were at the forefront: first, it was written in ASP.NET, and second it was very customizable, even to the point of writing plug-ins in C#. Since, in theory, I know this platform, this made it an attractive choice. […]

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