When I feel the urge to seek enlightenment, I redesign my blog.

I have usually built my previous themes focusing primarily on layout and visual appearence, and later plugging-in the required blog code, which would generate content by pulling it out of the database and displaying it on screen.

My themes (so far):

This time, I would like to change it to the other way around. Why? It is the enlightenment, stupid. The style (sheet, together with graphics and other stuff) just provides a decent visual appearance, but it is the underlying code that really makes the site or blog fly.

Using the power of template tags and select plugins, you can intelligently design your blog’s user interface to please (as in pleasure). The beauty of a blog design, at least to me, is far less in the stylesheet when compared to the way you can display, say, search results, archives, home page or static pages nicely, intelligently.

This was the very reason for my open admiration to Kubrick, when it was released with WordPress 1.5. It was not its visual design, but rather, its underlying code that made interaction beautiful.

So, it’s back to basics and start writing lean and simple snippets of code that I can use and reuse in themes. Or better, widgetize. Because 2007 is the year of widgets.

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