I just recently changed to a new theme for my site. Since then, I’ve been doing my first real digging into the internals of how theming works and how to talk to the back end of WordPress. It’s been a suprisingly pleasant venture – all your content is easily accessible and the interface is clean. I’m just starting to learn PHP (from a .NET background), and it’s been nice to find that I can hack around and usually get the code right on the first or second try.

I’ve also been making some progressive enhancements to the site at the same time. If you came in via a webkit-based browser, you’ll hopefully notice the webkit-only light blue gradient behind post titles, as opposed to a solid color. I also animated the RSS button in the upper right hand corner to grow 10% larger on hover. These are examples of ways to embrace progressive flourishes on your site without breaking the experience for anyone. Next up, I’m going to incorporate rgba into the footer somehow. Hope you enjoy the new layout!