David Carrington

I wanted minimal, I wanted focus and I wanted well…. ok I’ve cheated for now and grabbed hold of the closest theme I could remember which roughly matched the requirements I was after.

However, there’s still not enough focus on the posts themselves, and I’d prefer the front page to work a bit better for my own personal writing style - I don’t like huge great whopping paragraphs of text. I like bullets, I like numbered lists and I like quotes.

“It’s ok to do less, skip details, and take shortcuts in your process if it’ll lead to running software faster” - another Getting Real quote.

See they agree with me! I’m allowed to cheat… erm… ok maybe that’s not exactly what they said but I’ll go with it for now.

A few things stand out from the rest that I need to change (in no particular order):

• The theme describes “David Carrington” like a product, not a person
• Block quotes show up too faint to read
• When viewing a single post, there’s too much emphasis on the left-hand-side meta information. I’ll move that to the right and/or style it to be less intrusive.
• I’ll get rid of trackback and comment feed links - I don’t like them.
• I’d prefer pipes in the page title rather than arrow symbols. “Blog Archive” is also redundant.
• Search box overlays the title link, making it hard to click (in FF at least)
• I’d like less emphasis on categories
• I want it to feel unique - so I’ll have to make some fundamental colour or layout changes.