new wp-theme preview: “transitory”

I’ve been hard at work the past couple of weeks on a new WordPress theme i’m calling “transitory.” It’s not as cool of a name as Big Urgent Wish, but i tried it on and it stuck.

My goal with this theme was to have a much, much cleaner page, without too much extraneous information clogging up eyeballs. Here is how i’ve decided it will eventually be layed out:

"transitory" Layout

"transitory" layout (click to enlarge)

Note that the colors are arbitrary in the above layout and will change. 

And now here is a screenshot of it in action. Note the final layout has not yet been 100% applied. Also note the cool city background, which is blacked out underneath content boxes. Trust me, it looks much cooler than this. The menu to the side is being rewritten with jQuery, and will fold out when needed, and collapse when not needed.

transitory screenshot

"transitory" screenshot (click to enlarge)

At a guess, i’d have to say that it should be completed in about another week or two. So… a month, maybe? I dunno. You’ll see it soon enough.

All comments (good or bad) welcome!

Cheaters, etc.

Here’s a list of cool resources for web design and development, including cheat sheets galore.

I’m sure there are more I have bookmarked somewhere. I’ll add them as i find ‘em. Enjoy!

Fun & stupid things to do with PHP and CSS

Over on the recently-relaunched Technothrope: A better PHP random background-color generator.

Also in the garage: the latest version of the random bg generator, plus a weird little experiment with fixed backgrounds that i was considering using for something before i decided it was too noisy.

Coming up at some point: something Holly called me the other day has inspired me to make my next project, the Argument Machine.

hello, again

Thanks to ScareCrowe @ htmlforums.com, i finally got my theme working. Mostly.

I know it still looks like crap on IE. That will be fixed. And none of my plugins are enabled or updated yet.

I still have plans on releasing this theme into the wild, but i have a ways to go before it is up to snuff. Some of the backend is still kind of messy.

Btw, over at technothrope i plan on doing a tutorial on upgrading WordPress for people who are very far behind.

Big Urgent Tweak Test

Look out for my B.U.T.T.! I’ve just finished uploading some tweaks to make the Big Urgent Wish theme a little nicer. Please, as always, wear your helmets, and let me know if anything falls on your head. I could always use a good laugh.

I hope to have a sanitized version available soon.