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21st Century Dad Gets a New Look

December 10th, 2007 . by admin

Aren’t you glad that ugly theme is gone? Finally!

No self-respecting blogger would ever use the default themes included in your Wordpress installation! An exhaustive search led me to the Heckerped theme. It’s a great looking theme and the story behind it is even better. This theme was created for a client who burned the developer of it. He chose to do something positive about it by offering it to everyone for free. In his own words, “lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness.”

There are so many reasons I ditched the old theme. The main one that comes to mind is, “it was ugly as sin, and didn’t have widget support. This one solves those problems, and many more:

  • The Categories and Archives are now drop-down menus. This alleviates some clutter and visual noise.
  • I always seem to like blue things. Blue is good.
  • With a little work, I can add a Google search box to replace the standard search. I find the Google search box is far more robust than the build-in search.
  • The header now features a random image for every page impression. I replaced the defaults with photos of my own family.
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