atourworst.org

Atourworst - Not so ugly anymore

Posted on March 19th, 2007

Well, I finally finished the new theme for atourworst.org. It’s not a design that I created, but rather I ported it from styleshout.com’s design: Refresh. As you can see I kept a lot of the elements the same, as I really liked the overall design. I changed around a few things, like the icons (from famfamfam.com) and obviously it has support for Wordpress [2.x].

Some of the plugins it currently supports: Brian’s Latest Comments, Dunstan Style Error Page, My Del.icio.us, Now Reading, Simple Tagging, SRG Clean Archives, Vipers Plugins Used, Word Count, and WP-Postviews.

The following are aesthetic elements that the theme supports: CSS Speech Bubbles, CSS Drop Shadows, and Lightbox JS.

There are obviously other plugins I use here at this site, but those aren’t ones that need to be integrated in order to perform. There might be some quirks throughout the site, so please bare with me while I try to sort them out. I’m also [finally] going to update some of the pages, as they haven’t been formatted to fit with this layout or new stylesheets that have been added. Also, the only bug that I know of thus far, is when viewing a child page (subpage) the subpage listing disappears. I’m working on getting it to stay visible, so you’ll have to love the back button for now.

One of my favorite new features (from a plugin) has been the Dunstan Style Error Page which sets up a 404 page with proper information to help out a visitor if they’ve accessed a page from my domain, that is no longer set up. Try it out for yourself.

  1. Constance March 19th, 2007 at 2:39 am

    Oh I like it a lot. I think I’m gonna try some of the elements you used. Those are spiffy!.

  2. Nan March 19th, 2007 at 7:33 am

    I very much like this theme. Makes me think about spring. Good to know you didn’t have too much troubles with the plugins! I personally love the simple tagging plugin.

  3. Melissa March 19th, 2007 at 10:59 am

    Lovely! :D I’ve always liked this theme. Cool that you tweaked it to make it your own! Very sleek and bloggish. :) I love how it’s so clean and easy to browse through.

    Oh, cool speech bubbles I’ll have to check that out! And I love that error page plugin too! It really does make it a lot easier to manage errors and missing pages.

    Have a good Monday! ^_^

  4. Amanda March 19th, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    i love your new layout!!

  5. Keith March 19th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    I like the comment section. :)

  6. karlbright March 19th, 2007 at 5:58 pm

    mmm taggy goodness :P

  7. Jenn March 19th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    Ooh, very stylish. Great job!

  8. Nienke March 20th, 2007 at 11:24 am

    Wow, these Speech Bubbles are pretty neat, I might just use them. Thanks for the link!

    I like the theme a lot, it’s very soothing!

  9. Jack March 20th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Very nice look! Easy on the eyes. Grey/blue/green are always great color choices!

  10. Jenny March 27th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    It looks good. I like it.

  11. Vinod Ponmanadiyil April 2nd, 2007 at 1:31 am

    This is an awesome customization of refresh theme. Any plans to make it public?