Ahsanity

As promised to myself, I did do some of the changes that I wanted in this blog. I got her a new theme, added a few helpful plugins, and tiny miny changes here and there.

First of all, I have thrown away the idea of creating my own Wordpress theme. The main reason being that I just don’t have much time. And the real main reason being that my CSS skills are like a granny. I just don’t have the patience to sit all day and get confused with all the CSS attributes and properties. So I thought it is better to just search for a theme.

But, finding a good theme is a very tough job for me. Specially when I find myself confused with what I mean by a good theme. But anyway, after trying out more than a few themes, I have finally settled down with this one. It is called Brodie, and I like it for a number of reasons. First, it is very minimalistic: no funky header images, no wanna be web2.0, and no cheap artistic touches. Just a plain simple look. I like its black and white feel. I did do some tweaking. I thought the sidebar area was too wide compared to the post area. I balanced it to follow the rule of third (or atleast that is what I think). Also few minor touches here and there. I am happy for the time being, but I have got this feeling that I will start tampering it as soon as I get some time. But regardless of that, I feel it is a really good theme. So, if you are the maker of this theme, this is for you: Thank you!

Other than that, I added a few plugins that are almost must have:

1. Akismet :to protect my blog from too much love.
2. All in One SEO Pack : Just to help myself with some SEO abuse.
3. Google XML Sitemaps : A very helpful plugin to generate the sitemap. Yes, i like those spiders, who doesn’t?
4. WordPress.com Stats : Yes yes, i know about Google Analytics. I am just too much used to this plugin. So even after registering with Google Analytics, I thought it won’t be too much of harm to add this.

So there you have it! My brand new blog is slowly coming into shape. The next thing that I am going to do after writing this post, is to write something about myself, in the “About” page. Its high time for the world to know me better!