While I have nothing against my own creation, Modern-Blue just wasn’t my style.  I had been looking into themes that developers could use — so I wouldn’t need to start from scratch — and I settled upon Sandbox.  It has so many CSS classes built in that I hardly had to modify the template at all!  I changed the page.php and single.php templates to link to themselves, footer.php to show the page generation stats (for example, “25 queries in 1.732 seconds”), and the comments.php template to upgrade to threaded comments.

But enough with the technical gibberish.  Here are my favorite things about the new theme:

It’s purple

This goes without saying.  (My favorite color is purple)

All headings are accessible

With the new style, I can use any heading from 1 to 6  — yep, that’s all of them — in any post.  This means that I get an additional two headings from the top that used to be too big, plus the two from the bottom that used to be smaller than the main text of the post.

The big flashy logo

I always liked big flashy logos.   This one isn’t even made in flash!

I can make nested pages to infinity and beyond

Just when you thought this blog couldn’t get any more annoying awesome, this happens.

The template is somebody else’s

Although that may seem like a bad thing, it’s actually very good.  It means that I don’t have to worry about figuring out the code if a new version of WordPress breaks the theme.  All I have to do is download a patched version of Sandbox, and I’m ready to roll.

What do you like about it?

I’ve listed my favorite things about Daily Llama 3.0, what are yours?

Instead of being a plugin, it would probably need to be a theme to prevent the “WTF” response when either your custom template is destroyed when you change a theme, or when you change a theme and your old custom one shows up.

I think I might be able to attempt creating this system, however I won’t need to if someone has already released something similar.

P.S. Does anyone know the php code to make one of these?

P.P.S. Does anyone actually read this blog?  If you do, make a comment on this post, please.

All webhost stupidity claims aside, I’m going to make as many changes for the better as I can just on this blog.

First of all, I’m going to make the new theme that I was planning on making. Also, I’ll need to see where I can host this blog elsewhere that might be a better host. Okay, I see that I’m drifting back into I-hate-this-webhost land, so I’ll try to pull myself out of it.

The new template will be purple, and it will have rounded corners, but the most important part of it will be that I’m going to publish it under the gpl license. (This means you can tear it apart and I won’t care.)

I know it’s going to be hard to re-program my whole blog, but I’m up for it.

Over and out.

But for now, let’s just hope that I’ve fixed the problem. One of the other things I am going to do to my theme is implement more colors into my comments css.

The old comments (current comments at the time that I’m writing this) looked like one of the three boxes shown to the right. I’m going to make them so they can be any color of the rainbow, going from pale red to pale orange to pale yellow to pale green to pale blue to pale purple, or if the person who made the comment was a Daily Llama official, it would be a more prominent version of the color. Of course, nobody can use the name of a Daily Llama official unless they are logged in as that user or have access to my database.

If it’s really going well, I’ll even try to make the corners rounded! Do you have any ideas about the theme that I should implement? What css colors should I use for the comment backgrounds?

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Changelog:

1. Made the gradient on the comment boxes stand out more
2. Made the new colors
3. Gave up on rounded corners
4. Random first color

I think I’m done for now…