New theme coming up
Although I haven’t even finished tweaking this theme to my liking, I decided to start on a new one from scratch. It will probably take a few weeks or so before it’s finished (especially with the upcoming trip to NYC), but that doesn’t matter. I’ve installed a tiny plugin that will let you follow its progress by selecting the site’s theme. As you can see, all I’ve done up until now is define the divs and used CSS to put everything roughly in place.
A lot of the inspiration comes from last year’s edition of the 24 ways to impress your friends website. Some of the articles were really good, so I’d then already decided to “re-enact” most of the articles over here. The first thing I did on the new template was actually make use of the grids component of the YUI library presented on day 20.
The other thing that really inspired my is a combination of my upcoming trip to New York and a photograph that was taken in New York by my friend Martijn. I’ve been using it as a background on my computer for some time now because I’ve always really liked it. I thought I (we) could shoot some more pictures fin the subway and around the statioor me to use in the next stages of the project. I must admit that I haven’t even asked him if it is okay to use it, though. But, I’ll get round to that when I see him next week.