As you may have noticed, the blog got new clothes (a new theme).

This new theme is completely written by myself (yeah, I wrote PHP :-) ) but I used some other sites and themes as sources of inspiration. First of all, I tried to create a theme that will present just the actions that are available in and related to the current context. For example: you will not see the recent archive on the About page. Similarly, you will not see my link recommendations or details about me on the main page; for such details access the About page.

Secondly, the sidebar is fully dynamic and, usually, changes as you navigate through the site. It will display information related to the current (context) page. For the moment, some sidebars are quite empty since I have some more widgets to develop.

Voting was moved at the end of the post and is visible only when you see the full post. In my opinion, there is no reason to vote a post until you went through it. Also, the starts for voting were replaced by a binary choice (Like/Dislike).

The fancy 3D tag cloud was replaced with a 2D version. Flash is nice but it was creating a lot of problems with the rest of the content. Also, it was forcing the readers to install Adobe Flash just to see something that is an insignificant part of the website.

There is one thing that I had to remove but I miss it. The support for paged comments. The old plugin was not working well. Do you know any good plugin for this?

Least but definitely not last, the new theme was released because I need feedback. I am aware that is incomplete and might be a little buggy. That’s why I really want to know if you like it, if you encounter any problems in using it and if you have any suggestions of improvement.

Later Edit: there is a delay between when you vote and the result is displayed because of the server caching. Currently, I don’t have a solution for this but don’t worry, your vote is recorded and will appear in ~5 minutes.