{"id":5565,"date":"2011-07-23T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2011-07-23T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T00:43:17","slug":"hows-my-new-blog-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/hows-my-new-blog-template\/","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s my new blog template?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s up!\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>I especially like the sidebar layout, with the featured item on top and the double sidebars below.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m going to put all my promotional stuff (books, social networks) on the right sidebar, with all the blog stuff (tags, archives, recent comments, blogroll, etc) on the left.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so sure about the Current Projects bar, though.\u00a0 Does it look good on the left, or should I put it on the right, above my books?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want the sidebar to look too busy, but at the same time I don&#8217;t want to push my books too far down from the top.<\/p>\n<p>I made a few tweaks to the color scheme, though there will probably be a few more kinks to work out in that area.\u00a0 The black text on white is a radical departure from the previous template, which is going to take a while for me to get used to.\u00a0 However, now that my blogging goals have shifted from personal to more professional, I think it&#8217;s a move in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Things I&#8217;d like to change but don&#8217;t know how:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The blog header font.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to go back to Courier New small caps, like the old one.\u00a0 Every time I try to tweak the CSS stylesheet, though, nothing I do seems to work.<\/li>\n<li>Font size for pages and categories (pages are above the blog header, categories are below). Jerle pointed out that they could be larger, and I agree with him.<\/li>\n<li>Background color for the child category pages.\u00a0 They blend in too much with the current shade of gray.<\/li>\n<li>The favicon.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want the generic WordPress logo, I want to make something unique to this site (like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/favicon.bmp\">the eye<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s about all I can think of right now, but I&#8217;m definitely open to any of your suggestions.\u00a0 My goal is to turn this blog into a home site for my writing career, where readers can connect with me and easily find my stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you have any cool ideas for my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=404\">Error! 404 page<\/a>, please let me know.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/60-really-cool-and-creative-error-404-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Those are always fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s up!\u00a0 What do you think? I especially like the sidebar layout, with the featured item on top and the double sidebars below.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m going to put all my promotional stuff (books, social networks) on the right sidebar, with all the blog stuff (tags, archives, recent comments, blogroll, etc) on the left. I&#8217;m&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/hows-my-new-blog-template\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How&#8217;s my new blog template?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,390,259,199],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-about-this-blog","tag-blogging","tag-just-for-fun","tag-questions","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1rL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}