Journalized Theme 2.7 Final Released.

After feedback from users and some minor tweaks, my Journalized Theme version 2.7 is finally released! The theme is no longer in beta and is ready for the big time.

A reminder of some of the new features:

  • Comes with six built in ’skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, and Winter)
  • A new administration interface to configure the theme.
  • Support for widgits, tags, and Gravatars
  • Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
  • Supports custom header image, including in the background
  • and many more…

screenshot of theme

Go get it now!. As usual, leave feedback on the theme page please.

New Journalized Theme Beta Released

After nearly two years of inactivity, I have finally updated and released a new version of my Journalized Theme.

screenshot of theme

The theme includes support for WordPress 2.7 features, but is backwards compatible with WordPress 2.5 and 2.6

Just some of the new features:

  • Comes with six built in ‘skins’ (including the old Blue, Sand, and Winter)
  • A new administration interface to configure the theme.
  • Support for widgets, tags, and Gravatars
  • Can be configured to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
  • Supports custom header image, including in the background
  • and many more…

Go check it out and let me know what you think. (Leave feedback on the theme page, not here)

That’s a lot of spam comments

Akismet has caught 2,000,190 spam for you since you first installed it.

Two million is a ridiculous number of spam comments on my little ol’ blog.

I can’t imagine it will get any better, either.

I have to be thankful for Akismet. If you get a lot of spam comments, that you no longer have to deal with because Akismet protects you from them , please consider paying for at least a pro-blogger subscription. It’s well worth the money.

New Site Published – St Bede’s College

The new web site for my daughter’s school, St Bede’s College has finally gone live today. This is great news! It is a much better looking replacement for their old site and will give a much needed boost to their on-line presence.

Of course, it is built completely on WordPress, with a ton of plugins, a couple of custom widgets, an original design by an ex pupil, and a fairly sophisticated theme by me. I’ll give more details shortly. It should look OK in most browsers. I’d appreciate a comment if anyone spots any major breakage.

The hardest part (or at least the part that took me the most time) was converting their old pages which were written as old-school 90’s stylee static pages — chock full of presentational HTML — into Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) ones. As far as I can tell every page nowvalidates as XHTML 1.0 strict.

The small team of staff members who have helped me design the architecture of the site, up date the content, and add new stuff, have done a marvellous job. Especially whilst coping with all that goes on at the beginning of a new school year.

Screen shot of St Bede's College website

Go check it out.