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 (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 (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!

• Kuler, by Adobe is really cool; it’s an interactive color palette generating widget thing that’s all about inspiration
• Visibone’s Font Card is all the most important information you need to know about fonts
• Ampsoft’s Browser-safe fonts includes a demonstration of each
• XHTML Character Entity Reference with extra info on hover
• Will the browser apply the rule(s)? A cool chart, if slightly outdated
• Quirksmode’s W3C DOM Compatibility Table
• 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
• A slew of great cheat sheets of all flavors, courtesy of Dave Child, formerly of ILoveJackDaniels.com (i was wondering when that would happen! Sorry, Dave!)
• The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
• A shitload of WordPress cheat sheets from Kahi
• Lorelle’s giant list of various cheat sheets, covering HTML, CSS, PHP, and more
• jQuery cheat sheet
• Another jQuery cheat sheet
• jQuery Visual Map
• And lastly, where i found some of these, SixRevision’s Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers and Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers

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

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.

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.

I hope to have a sanitized version available soon.