Fluxed

Latest changes at Waveflux

If you read this weblog at all frequently - or you visit seldom but have a pixel-perfect memory - you’ll have noted that Waveflux has undergone yet another seismic shift in appearance and functionality, the second such alteration since the change in platform from Movable Type to WordPress. Indeed, it’s the adoption of WordPress that has made such layout changes possible easy. Back in the MT days - and I’m talking about MT 3.x, which was easier for me to use than the subsequent version - changing the blog’s layout seemed…well, if not a daunting task, then at least one not undertaken lightly. Consequently, the layout here didn’t change very often. You sort of learned to live with what you had until you finally screwed up enough courage/energy to have another go at it.

Now, with the ease of theme changing afforded by WordPress, I very nearly have the opposite problem: changing layouts is almost too easy. Not a bad problem to have, though.

As for the specific changes here: I had been using a slight variant of Thad Allender’s fine Gridline Magazine theme, but something just wasn’t sitting right with the layout. As I’ve already confessed to not being a designer, you’ll not be surprised to hear that I lack the vocabulary to express how I felt in anything but the vaguest of terms. The feeling itself was keen, though, and prompted me to review the “magazine-like” WP themes that are sprouting like dandelions all over the web. I tried out a handful of themes - astonishingly easy to switch back and forth; it’s like trying on jackets at the men’s store - and kept coming back to Arun Kale’s clean, grid-based, and interestingly-named The Morning After. Again, words fail me here: I can’t explain why I liked it so much, but knew that I did. I played around with a test installation, tweaking the code to accommodate my needs, then rather impulsively discarding the old arrangement and applying the new. Hence, the new digs.

As is usual after any move to a new place, not every room is ready for inspection and some painting remains to be done. We have time for that, though. After all, we’re all moved in now and hardly working against the clock.

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