I have taken Derek Punsalan’s Grid Focus WordPress theme (which is the theme used on this blog, although it’s slightly modified) and converted it to HTML5.
With Derek’s permission, this conversion is now available to download from this site.
Derek’s original works in WordPress 2.6+ and I can confirm that it works in WordPress 3.0.1.
Let me know what you think!
I have spent some time today converting the WordPress theme that I use for this blog, the excellent Grid Focus by Derek Punsulan, into HTML5. As of today, this blog is now HTML5 compliant.
It’s the first time I’ve delved into the world of WordPress theming, and I was pleasantly surprised how simple it is. Next step is to create my own from scratch, but I am looking forward to that.
Unfortunately one of the plugins that I use, SocioFluid generates invalid code, using deprecated elements and attributes. So this part doesn’t validate at all. I must look into an alternative. If you have any in mind, please let me know.
I’ve also converted my Decimal to Roman Numerals script into PHP for use in the copyright date in the footer.
I’ve been using Twitter Tools for a number of weeks now, automatically having some of my Twitter posts displayed on this blog. However I noticed today that they had stopped working. I knew that I had changed my Twitter password recently and realised that I had forgotten to change it in Twitter Tools. No problem, this can be resurrected easily enough I thought.
Except that it wasn’t.
I’ve made a few tweaks and configurations to this blog site, as you can no doubt see. The main change is the expanded navigation, with the inclusion of a contact form and a resources for web developers page, which will be added to when I find something worthwhile.
I’ve also made a colour change to iandevlin.com, changing the background colour from grey to white in order to fit with the look of this blog.
Feel free to let me know what you think!
I know this blog hasn’t been up for long, but I had already begun to dislike the previous theme (Scrapbook) as I felt there was too much wasted space at the top causing users to have to scroll down to read any content. I know that in this day and age most people have larger screens and higher resolutions, but still.
Anyway, this morning whilst updating WordPress to the latest version, 2.8.5, I also decided to look for another theme and came across Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan at 5THIRTYONE. I liked the clean, content focused layout and after installing it, was amazed at the flexibility of the widgets that can be used, so I’m sure it’ll be here to stay, at least for a while!
Let me know what you think?