New Year, New Blog Theme
By Yan • Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: Inanities, Wordpress Themes
This took me forever, I know. But I’ve been busy. Extremely so.
After a long and eventful ride, I’m finally saying goodbye to my beloved Dark theme to pave the way for this magazine layout based on the amazing Mimbo.
I don’t have anything else to add, so I’ll just pretend-interview myself because I also don’t have anything better to do. Or, rather, I don’t want to start doing the things that I really, really need to do.
But that’s another story. On to the interview…
Why change your theme? Aren’t you too busy already?
I was stressed with real life, and I needed a good distraction. Had I not tinkered with this totally self-indulgent project, I would have gone crazy. (And trust me, you don’t want to see me when I’m in one of those “moods”.)
What is this theme?
This theme is called Mimbo, a powerful, unique theme by Darren Hoyt. To use the words of the developer himself:
Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking.
Hence, the unnecessary bells and whistles in this design. (Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. Stress is a bitch, you know.)
Explain your header.
Uhm, can’t. I just know I love that picture, courtesy of Bigmakoy. I think those are christmas lanterns from one crazy night at TJ’s with Bon, Gela, and the gang. Good times, good times. 
What happened to your old theme?
It’s still here, somewhere. I may or may not use it again. We’ll see.
Are you done customizing this theme?
Uhm, not quite yet. I’ve fallen in love with Mimbo, and I can’t wait to see what other crazy things I can dream of adding to this. And uhm, I’ve been dubbed OC once too often, so there.
Note: Updates are still currently in progress. So please bear with me.
Update (01/20/2008):
I don’t see your shoutbox anywhere? Where is it?
My shoutbox is in the third tab in the right sidebar of the home page. Wait a few seconds for the red box to load, then click the tab marked “Shoutbox”. Don’t forget to leave me a message. I’ve been missing those sweet and not-so-sweet nothings in my shoutbox. 
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Yan (a.k.a. Yannie, YanYan) is a young-ish entrepreneur, writer, poet, artist, graphic designer, web geek, lover, friend, daughter, connoisseur, gourmand, amateur chef, coffee addict, control freak, and incessant dreamer. Not necessarily in that order.
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thanks yan..
nice theme, be a creative girl
inspirational
thanks again Yan..i, ve change my theme header …
thanks for the support
(as same as in my email 2 u)
Hello Yan..god bless you..
Yan, i got problem with my own header, as you see (attachments) my own “header image” not full till end, why ?
do i write a wrong code ? please tell me how i can repair this image ! (i use .jpg (header.jpg)
the image size is 745 X 220 , as you know i use Header_Dark.psd you give in your site, than i modified it. but not full in the end.
the code in “style.css” i changed was :
/***********************
* Header *
***********************/
#header {
width: auto;
height: 220px;
margin: 0 0 0 150px;
padding: 0;
background: #101010 url(images/header.jpgf) no-repeat;
border-bottom: 6px solid #790000;
position: relative;
}
thank 4 your kindness…i’ll wait your answer !
thanks.
lovrosh, I answered you via email.
nice one, nice one!
thanks, kai! we’ve missed you.
thanks, athan! athan na ta! heheheh.