All right (my handful of) readers, listen up. I am thinking about putting up a new theme on my blog, most probably a new default theme. I love the current default but I want some change. I will leave this one up as well but I just want some new one(s) to freshen things up. But, before I go through the effort of selecting, uploading and modifying a theme, I need some opinions. Firstly, vote in this poll:

Secondly, recommend good themes. I’m not a fan of two column themes as there’s never enough space to fit everything in one sidebar. Three and four column themes are what I’m looking for. So after you’ve voted in the poll, post some suggestions in the comments section. I already have some new themes that I was trying out but be aware that the new ones don’t have a theme switcher yet. I will add that pretty soon so hold your horses for a day or two. In the meantime, enjoy the new poll and post suggestions.

As of right now, I have finished redesigning my blog. It took a while and numerous trial and error sessions to finally get everything to look good. The default theme for my blog now is Neo Sapien although I have retained my old one [Quentin] and another theme I thought was interesting: Durable. Of course, I have greatly modified the look but I made no change to the original PHP code. All I did was add some things to a few files.

If you haven’t noticed, there are plenty of ads. I do need to pay for hosting every year, you know. And I think I’ve done poorly over the past year or so with ad-revenue although it seems to have imp;roved since I put all those ads in there.

The logo was made in two parts. First, I used Apophysis to generate a fractal with the triangular shape in the center. Then, I ran it through Photoshop and fiddled around with color and stuff and then cropped the file. Then, I just added the text, a blue shadow, and the white border. The background in the header took some effort. I used a 1×135 file [the theme had a 1x288 file on repeat but I cut down the size] zoomed 1600% and first colored it black. Then I added some blue. After that, I had that thin blue line through the center. Finally, I just added a fancy blue shape towards the top and bottom for that zig-zag line effect.

I also changed the background to black and moved the top menu to under the header image. I modified the text colors and fonts and put that Archives drop-down option to save space. As a last change, I added a page called “Videos” which will feature a couple of videos that I found interesting - courtesy YouTube of course. I’ll change them every now and then. I also removed the Archives page since it was redundant. I am also testing out (at leisure) a new gallery software which I may or may not implement.

So that’s it folks - the new site is complete and I’m back to posting blog entries. Expect some interesting posts in the next couple of weeks - I just pre-ordered a new Nintendo DS Lite (Black/Onyx) and have been listening to a bunch of new music which I will write about.

Yep!! I just added a Coppermine gallery for my wallpapers, desks, and pix. It would be too congested here in WordPress so I went for Coppermine. I’m still working on it and configuring it but you can check out http://www.singhvivek.com/coppermine to have a sneak peek

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Ok I finally decided to stop playing around with plugins and skins and have gone live. So this is officially the start of my blogging career. Wish me luck and leave your comments! Some interesting stuff coming up soon