A timeline of my themes
Since its inception in 2002, my site has adorned many themes and layouts over the past few years. The earliest one that I created for this site (for use with my then blog software: Greymatter) still eludes me. I probably didn’t capture a screenshot (or it could be lying inside my mom’s hard drive somewhere, I don’t know; I even tried the Wayback Machine, but no luck). My site changed clothes on an average of every six months.
As any blogger, I worked more on the visuals, the icons, to prep-up this site with hardly any work on semantics (I didn’t know that word back in 2002, by the way). Ofcourse, during these last couple of years, I’ve grown fond of things on the inside (under the bonnet stuff) and have made efforts to keep it elegant there as well.
Between 2002 and now, I used Greymatter, Movabletype and now WordPress to power my blog. Greymatter was the easiest to setup among the three, as I was a newbie to owning a site and learning it’s internals. I created my first layout for it using table markup (something of a no-no, these days). Soon I realized that Greymatter wasn’t the ideal software to have a blog on and I promptly jumped to Movabletype. I did make one mistake though. I did not value my posts and started afresh. It pains me to this day that I lost some good posts there that would have defined my history of blogging, for blogging’s sake. Moving on from Movabletype to WordPress is almost history and has been meticulously recorded in my archives.
So, without further ado, here’s my timeline of a short list of themes used so far.
Very nice. Was Flash necessary though? *smile*
May 19, 05 at 15:30Flash is still Flickr’s idea, not mine =)
May 20, 05 at 01:07Hi! I really really love your Plain Vanilla template! I thought of adapting it for MT which I am more familiar with but I love WP and its functions & plugins. I hope you’ll come up with a category archive template cos it’s defeated me so far!
Thanks heaps!
May 22, 05 at 02:17Iman: I have that on my list of to do =) for a long time now. You could look-up the default theme’s code for use for now. Enjoy!
May 22, 05 at 02:56