Jun 07, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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I started building my own theme. I got it done and I’ve been tweaking it for some time now. I did the whole thing from ground down, taking the bits from various themes freely available, like Sandbox. I created the CSS from zero and I’ve been adding more settings while I’ve been adding more features to my design.
I was inspired by CSS Zen Garden, and the designers there accomplished using just CSS for the design. Another design principle was using no images on the theme itself. Thus, fast loading, very flexible theme.
First Version of “ZemalfZen” is Ready!
It’s an early alpha or beta version right now, so no downloads for anyone just yet. At this stage, I’m not ready to publish the theme to the public, as I have to tweak and debug it first, but perhaps one day, if I see interest to the theme, I will put it out there.
Today I started putting the pieces together and I got a version done I’m quite happy about, after many hours of setting the CSS layout and coloring settings just right. It can be a pain to get those correctly, so I had to refactor the whole css-file, as it was a bit cluttered from all the tests I’ve been doing..
But when I got this done, I started wondering, is it cool to duplicate the designs of other blogs?
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