blog.munimkazia.com » blog http://blog.munimkazia.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:42:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Why bother? http://blog.munimkazia.com/2010/05/04/why-bother/ http://blog.munimkazia.com/2010/05/04/why-bother/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 13:42:32 +0000 Munim http://blog.munimkazia.com/?p=27 I look around and I find tons of beautiful minimalist wordpress themes. Why should I bother designing and coding my own? So I finally gave in and installed Carrington text (http://text.carringtontheme.com/). Looks pretty neat. It doesn’t go with my main page’s design.. but who gives a rat’s ass. Personally, for blogs with a lot of text, I like reading dark text on a light background.

So if you haven’t heard already, Microsoft has declared that it won’t support flash out of the box unlike Chrome, which will be integrated with Flash. Their statements about commitment to HTML5 does sound very reassuring. I hope the days of browser incompatibility and ugly code are finally getting over.

On the personal front, I have decided that I am still not ready for a full time commitment to any employer as of now. Development contracts are pouring in and should be enough to keep me happy for a while. It is kinda disturbing when your demanding job prevents you doing normal things like shopping for essentials or getting a haircut. Anyway more about this later. I will have some pretty big announcements to make in a while.

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I wanted something simple to go along with my newly redesigned website(more of a single webpage). While there are many simple blogging solutions out there like Posterous, I am a die hard WordPress supporter. It is my preferred simple CMS and its the first thing which comes to my mind when someone asks me to make a simple website for them. I even tried, without much luck to make a link directory using WordPress. I couldn’t match the requirements though. This was a while back, and I have considerably increased my knowledge about WordPress development since that time. I could probably pull it off now.
Sorry, I digress.
Anyway, I have a few newly acquired skills in web design, css and blueprint, which I picked up at new place of work, Pace Extremes. Eager to try all these out, I made my own custom theme, using Slipfire’s SF-Blueprint-WP as the base. I removed a lot of sections I don’t need and ended up with this. I am quite happy with the result, considering I wanted something extremely simple, stark and minimalist. I have not published this theme yet anywhere. I am not even sure if anyone else would want a theme like this. Anyhow, I will publish it later here. If you come across any visual errors in this theme, do let me know. I made this in just one hour.
And yeah, I make and redesign custom wordpress themes on a freelance basis. Feel free to email me at mail@munimkazia.com for further inquiries.
That’s it for now.

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