mindplunge

Back to the Basics… Modern Clix WP Theme

The loading speed of this website was just horrible. Having a ton of plug-ins, heavy javascript and automated installed it is asking for trouble. I’m giving up on the looks, bells and whistles. It’s back to basic! Simple layout, no fuzz, lot’s of white space and some nice fonts. Mindplunge converted to the Modern Clix WordPress theme. Just what I was looking for. I simply don’t have the time to develop my own WP theme again so why not use a free theme!

Rodrigo Galindez is a talented designer and his  Modern Clix WP Theme is beautiful. Over the next few days I will trick it out a bit but the delivered framework is and will be the work of Rodrigo. Well done!

A new beginning, a new design

I’ve been working hard for the last two weeks to complete the new design for mindplunge. As you might have figured out I’m starting as a freelance web designer and needed to dust off my portfolio. What better way than working on my own domains!

Color scheme is slightly darker but overall the same kinda blue-ish. Sidebar has been stripped to an accordion-style navigation. Click the large buttons to reveal more content! I’m sure you can figure it out.

There are still some elements I need to work on (pagination, trackbacks and several plug-ins) but I couldn’t wait to put some stuff already live. More soon!

Update: Apperently the wp_head() function isn’t playing nice with accordion.js. Had to roll back to the old theme. Oops

Update: All good. The ‘lightview plus’ plug-in was interferring with the accordion. Lightview plus is now replaced with shadowbox.

WordPress Theme: Mindplunge

I’m considering releasing my design for Mindplunge for the public. I’ve been playing with this thought for a while and I’m curious if anyone is interested. If so leave a comment and we take it from there (I might release it anyway since the # of readers are not stellar ).

Besides ego-boosting I’m curious what the backlink effect will befor this blog. So leave me a comment if you would like this design to be a WordPress Theme.

Almost there

All is up and running. A few more things need to be added but the major parts are working. One of the main reasons to switch to a new layout was a conflict with certain WordPress plugins. The all-in-one-seo-pack was conflicting with the Kimili Flash Embed plugin. Irony of it all is that the two plugins mentioned are conflicting with this template as well. Since I’m to lazy to figure out a work around I decided to move my flash based pages to a static page.

For now only my Santa Rosa Bench Project page is moved to a new url. Next will be my ‘photography’ page. Probably this afternoon.

Still on my things-to-do list is an update on the footer, blogroll and sidebar. The comment section needs some work too. It doesn’t display that your comment is being held for review. Instead it throws you in a loop making you think you didn’t comment. Very frustrating…

Once again…

I’m changing the templates again. Bear with me since only the front page is kinda done. Click on any other link and you’ll be horrified. I dare you. So please be patient as I try to solve all of this the next couple of days.

The reason I’m changing things is that my previous theme had a few flaws. I’m aiming for flawlessness this time! Keep tuned and hang in there with me. It’s gonna be really nice…

Update: for the time being I reverted back to the previous version. You might see a lot of back and forth going on. I’m too lazy to pull this site off-line and relaunch it when it’s finished. I don’t mind if you can see the mess…