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The new Theme

Posted: March 19th, 2005 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Personal, Websites |

Tuesday work: Added a function to the comments where you have to swear that you’re a human being in order to post a comment. I had to do this because every time I check the comments status I have more than 100 spam posts to moderate. Hope that this solves the issue.
Also, this new method doesn’t force you to write my name! Go ahead and try it!

Sunday work update:

  • Livesearch seems to be working now! Just type something in the search box and try it!
  • New “About Vitor” photo
  • Other minor layout changes
  • A new photo in my Photolog


Unlike what happen some months ago, I will not release my new Wordpress theme (wich I called Gollum 1.5) as there are plenty of other good themes for you to download now. Just check Alex King’s contest.

I must confess that one of the biggest pleasures I have is working on my website. That’s why I released this new layout unfinished.

Gollum 1.5 has more javascript than the previous version, the livesearch is still here (although it doesn’t work for some strange reason!) and the navigation menu has been improved (noticed the transparency effect?).

The header is a big .jpg image of me (some years ago..) surrounded my toys. You can also see the latest three thumbnails of the photolog.

I’ve made some changes to my .htaccess file in order to stop (well, at least decrease) the spam and corrected the Gravatars that you can see on the comments/single page.

There’s a lot to be done on the sidebar and footer, but with time things will come.


4 Comments on “The new Theme”

  1. #1 Me said at 3:05 am on March 20th, 2005:

    Its me testing my phone.S browser

  2. #2 JM said at 10:45 pm on March 21st, 2005:

    The comments only show up on mouse over, I dont know if that’s a good option.

  3. #3 Vitor said at 6:40 pm on March 22nd, 2005:

    It’s risky because non-javascript activated browsers/users will not see this option. But I wanted to do something original.

  4. #4 Me said at 7:34 pm on March 22nd, 2005:

    Lets see if the “I swear anti-spam” thing works!