I’ve been playing around with WordPress Themes a bit lately and have found a few I seem to like. The challenge being what can I tweak and what’s the result. Some of my recent downloads are:

• Blue Blog from Theme Porter
• Fall Season by WPTheme Park
• Fortune Basic from Frank Helmschrott
• Freedom Blue from Frank Helmschrott
• Solitude from Ronan Menton

I keep going back to my original modification of The Glass People. It’s clean, simple and I can follow the CSS and PHP. Now if I could only come up with one from scratch, something to add to the list I guess.

I got to give props to the everyone who does web site design, if I only had that kind of imagination… but I live in the real world and that kind of creativity is just not me. I do find it challenging to make changes working with what others have done. I am a fan of the guys at Binarybonsai as they have done nice work with K2 and the now WordPress default Kubrick.

So as I started to look at themes and what I could do I kept coming back to what The Glass People have done for WordPress. A simple to column theme with the sidebar on the right. So off and on for the last few weeks I’ve been making little changes to the css and php to where I think I’ve got what I want. Tonight was the final mods.

You can see from the standard theme is wasn’t much but I like stuff clean so fonts and colors had to change as well as a bit of modification to the sidebar.