Raymond Selda | PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS Website Developer

My very first wordpress theme

written by raymondselda on August 9th, 2008 | posted in Wordpress |

Its finally here! After almost a month of hardwork (because of procrastinating), I am launching my very own first wordpress theme! I know many of you have been anticipating this monumental release and your wait is finally over!

I like to describe this theme as the bastard son of ReadWriteWeb and Chris Coyier’s site. If you have noticed the genes for the header, sidebar and footer part came from Chris’ site while the genes for the content part came from ReadWriteWeb. Did you see the resemblance?

Here are some of the things I want to highlight:

Moz-border-radius for the sidebars

I’m aware that only a few browsers support this CSS property but I just thought it would be cool to show that you can create rounded corners without using any background images. Below is the CSS rules for the sidebar widgets:

-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 10px;

Custom Google Search

I used Google as my search tool because of only one reason: You can make money from it by participating in Google’s Adsense Program! hehehe.

Custom Fields for thumbnails in homepage

With custom fields you can really make your theme unique. Creating thumbnails in your homepage is one of the techniques you can apply when developing your theme. I’m still searching and learning on other ways in which you can apply custom fields to your theme so if you have any ideas on using custom fields please feel free to share it.

Developing this theme was a lot of fun and had a great experience from it. I learned a lot and it also enabled me to woodshed on my XHTML, CSS and Photoshop interface designing and now I’m ready to work on my secret project!

Thank you for reading and please I would really love to hear your good and not so good comments about my theme.

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