The last few weeks I have been getting really tired of the default-y theme. Luckily I happened across this theme which I actually liked. Most of the pre-built, freely available themes for WordPress that I can find I’m really not a fan of. I’ve been meaning to build my own, but honestly web design just doesn’t interest me quite as much as it used to. I’m more of a tweaker now. Other things that I’d rather spend my time on, I suppose.

Regardless, I’m pretty happy with how this looks for now. I’ll probably adjust a few things here and there, but I think it’s pretty snappy. Any thoughts?

Edit: Oh, one minor issue. It doesn’t display the tags associated with a post. I’ll be able to fix that pretty quickly later though. Fixed.

I’m going to finally take the plunge and trim down my large number of categories in WordPress (many of which you can’t even see because, uh, I haven’t put any content in them) and start moving to tagging. Now that tagging is native in WP 2.3 I really don’t have much of an excuse.

It’ll be a pain to go back and tag some of my older content though. Chances are I won’t actually do all of it, just some important ones.

The trick then is deciding which categories are still important, because I think they’re still valuable. I just was trying to use the category system as a tagging system of sorts and its gotten a bit unwieldy. Time to fix that!

I came home today with the full intent on upgrading to WP 2.2 and taking care of a few things on the site, but it’s amazing how easy it is to get distracted. I started playing around with my mac and updating a few tools that I’ve been using lately, then catching up on some of my feeds, dinner, and then before you know it, it’s after 10:00 PM. The days really just start to go by faster than you can keep track of the older you seem to get.

Well, I can say I did do a few things at least to prepare for the upgrade. I suppose I’ll get to it tomorrow afternoon.

On the work front, I love my new job. It’s pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I think it’ll continue to get better as well, especially when my new project starts up. There are a couple things I am uncertain about related to my current project, but that’s pretty typical when you inherit any software system. Every developer has their own style for working, and it just so happens that the previous developer had one that was moderately different from mine. Not worse really, just quite different. It’s good to be exposed to this kind of thing though; I’ve already learned a couple things that when you put it together with what I already knew, the result is greater than the sum of the parts.