Speckled Green

How silly of me! I forgot to add the wp_footer() call to the end of my theme!! No wonder some things wouldn’t work (like my stats counter).

Fixed it now, so that should be better. I wonder what else I forgot to add?

Anyways, I’ve still a long way to go with this theme. I need to fix up the Pages template, and I need to create personalised pages, such as the about page! Currently that uses the same default template…

I should also look to adding CSS for all the features of the site that I use, plus some that I don’t (gonna need your help on that part guys! I don’t know what to add if I don’t use it myself)

And then I’ve also got to choose a final colour scheme for the hyperlinks on the page, and make sure that my theme’s images/backgrounds and whatnot are Dynamic enough, like the sidebar for example. The widgets are in a jQuery UI accordion thingy, which used a simple jpeg image as the background for it. But I thought that that idea wasn’t flexible enough, so I came up with my own background image, added an alpha channel to it (transparency), saved it as a .png, and then said “now I can change the colour of those buttons/tabs, and I don’t have to create a whole new background image to do so!” (if you want to know how, I made the background be the slightly transparent image I made, and then also specified a background colour, so all I have to change is the background colour!).

Any there’s many other things I need to do to the theme, but I can’t think of them now.

Which reminds me. Stupid Windows still says that the screen ppi is 96ppi (pixels per inch, the density of the physical pixels on the screen), when really the standard ppi is 72… GRRRR But that in itself varies between screens. I mean, the new mobile screens you can get (e.g. iPhone) vary between 72ppi (on some laptops) to over 200ppi (on some small HD screens), although the average appears to be around 120ppi… which reminds me, if I find a ruler app on the iPhone, I wonder how accurate it really is.