Needed a break from grading videos and grading final projects. So, what does doofus do? He redesigns the site. Go figure.

So, let me know what you think. Still pretty simple. Actually modded/hacked the Jakarta theme from Jose Mulia. Thank you for sharing the theme, Jose. His design won the “Most like a Paper Diary Prize” in the 2005 WordPress Themes Competition.

Several aspects of this theme appeal to me:

• rollover of text makes it darker – so it is easier to read
• the buttons in the top righthand corner for bumping up/down text sizes and alignment
• pretty decent contrast
• uncluttered – sort of
• good CSS, uses some images – but not too many

You can visit Alex King’s theme browser to see all of the available free themes for WordPress. Just one more reason to consider WordPress when thinking about blogging.

With a $10 domain name, an inexpensive $5 to $10 hosting plan, and very little work – you have a site and a blog. It is actually quite simple and gives you much more flexibility than say the Typepad or Blogger accounts. The costs are equal to – or less than – any paid hosted options, too.

Update: I’ve also installed the WordPress Technorati Tags plugin and playing around with that. It makes creating tags not represented in your catergory names much easier. So, the latest tags are below.

Technorati Tags: infopinions | blog | Jakarta | Jose Mulia