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Diabolik

Ronny — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:19:39 +0000

It’s here! My new blog theme is finally here! The old one has been around for more than 2 years now and not only was I getting pretty tired of it. The theme just didn’t reflect my ideas anymore, nor did it enable me to do what I wanted to do. And to top it off: Lots of people complained about the enormous file size of the images which slowed page loads way down. I’m thinking about releasing the old blog theme as a download, but I’m not quite sure yet. Anybody interested? Let me know

Diabolik

The new blog theme is called Diabolik and let me get started by saying: I didn’t build it myself. It’s actually a premium theme I bought on ThemeForest. I never thought about buying a premium WordPress theme because it seemed like such a waste of money but after seeing the live demo, I realized I wouldn’t be able to create something similarly powerful in a reasonable amount of time. So 35$ seemed like a no-brainer.

At first it seemed like it was perfect but as I started updating my site, I realized a lot of things were buggy, incomplete or just not implemented. Examples:

Lots of default WordPress default CSS classes were not there..
Quite a lot of Javascript imperfections which could cause errors and stop stuff from working.
Bad copy/pastes in the custom post types (which caused a bug that drove me nuts).
The theme’s contact form didn’t work. Required a rewrite.
Buggy theme functions that would break the site from time to time.
Page navigators were poorly implemented (and would screw up the design).
The searchform was not correctly implemented.

And more stuff like that. Ok, at this point it looks like I bought a load of crap but I have to be honest: Those were tiny bugs and imperfections in an otherwise great theme! There’s multiple templates for every kind of page, there’s quite a lot of custom widget magic, the portfolio section of the site is now fully powered by this theme, loads of animation and interaction. It was totally worth doing some bugfixing. I love it!

I’m currently in the process of adding my work to the portfolio and updating the current blogposts to fix the images and add the featured image (which I never used before). I’m very happy with the current theme. It’s fresh, light, pretty clean and as far as I’m concerned: It loads faster. That should make some people just a bit happier.

So yea: I saved a lot of time by buying this theme but if you ever consider buying a WordPress theme, make sure you’ve got the time to get your hands dirty because you might just need it.

Bugs and suggestions?

If you see anything out of line, encounter a bug or have an idea of something that should be different: Feel free to let me know in the comments. I’m pretty sure you can think of something

Supermini showcase

Ronny — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:05:52 +0000

A few months ago I re-released Supermini, a simple WordPress theme. After some time I started running across the first sites actually using it and, like every other theme, Supermini was personalized by everyone who used it. However since Supermini is such a simple and basic theme, minor changes make a big difference. I found that a lot of these changes looked great. Here are some of them.

Supermini for WordPress

Download: Here

SuperMini wordpress theme update

Ronny — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:38:21 +0000

I just uploaded an updated version of the SuperMini WordPress theme. If you encounter any bugs, feel free to tell me

You can check it out at ikDicht.

Oh and while I’m at it: Removing the footer links to Patrick and me is totally uncool… Because some people still do that in 2009.

“World in Motion” Theme

Ronny — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:09:33 +0000

First off: Wow, it has been really quiet up here during the past weeks…
School kept me pretty busy in the last couple of weeks. Tonight is actually the first night in weeks that I’ve spent working only on personal projects.

If you’re reading this, then you have undoubtedly noticed some changes on my blog (to all my fellow RSS readers: feel free to check out the site. It’s worth it ). I created this theme myself, and to be honest: it’s my first real attempt at a WordPress theme. I had to build a blog design for a school assignment, so I figured: “What the hell, let’s just create something cool!” and this is what I came up with.

I’ve tested it on the following browsers, and fixed most bugs and differences.

IE6 (Win XP)
IE7 (Win XP)
IE8 (Windows Seven beta)
Firefox 3 (OSX & Win XP)
Safari 3 (OSX)

If I overlooked something anyway, feel free to tell me so.
And please: do tell me what you think of the theme. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!