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Just a quick note – Matt & Dan have gone active with the new design over at halftonreviews.com.  Head on over there and check it out.  =)

It’s required a bit of extra work on Matt’s part to get it working (editing a lot of post info).  But it’s there.  =)

The site is heavily enabled with javascript (to hide some elements and make others “pop”).  I was going to actually add a few other things, one cool one would have been a script that would automatically add in a google map based on any location info within the page.  The problem though, would come when the page itself had multiple cities on it (like the list of all posts).  Bit of a pain given their setup, but would have been workable.

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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working pretty heavily in theme design, specifically for WordPress.  After taking the time over the Christmas trip home to learn CSS, I dove right in.  (It’s a testament to how long I’ve been playing around on the web, as CSS was still in its infancy when I started, and dynamically driven pages/sites and CMS’es were hardly around, but I digress.)

Running three different CMS softwares over the last year and change, I’ve come to some basic conclusions about the two most prevalent – Joomla and WordPress.  I can appreciate each one for the differences and likenesses they possess.

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So, if you’re seeing this here (at the site, I mean), then you’re checking out my new theme. 

The theme’s name is BlackPress – it’s a variation of a tutorial done by Richard Carpenter over at hv-designs.co.uk.  The tutorial just covered the Photoshop mockup, not the slicing and coding necessary to turn it into what you see here.  

I think that there’s one or two minor things that I’ll need to clean up, but otherwise, I’m calling this one done and moving onto the next project…

The quarter-ton duo from halftonreviews (Matt & Dan – half of the halfton quartet) are letting me work with them to really change their site around from this rather repetitive wordpress layout into something a bit more to their liking.  I think it’s possible.  With what I’m picking up from the WordPress Codex and other resources, as well as practice, everything should be good.