My latest project was to re-design the blog for Cal Evans (my long-time significant other). The new site is a WordPress template created especially for this site. Cal wanted to stay with the blue and orange colors used in his logo (which comprises of a C with equal signs on each side). Cal also wanted rich color but more of a 2.0 look.

The design incorporates a complex repeating background, portions of which appear only behind the main header.

There were some tricky WP “features” I had to overcome to create the final template. Being the widgets in the left column do not necessarily use the same styles used in the basic template there was quite a bit to tweeking to be done. The blue background behind the headings in the left column were a particular problem as adding no margin to the li would cause all the text to be flush with the borders of the box, or if one added padding it would cause the blue background to move as well resulting in a gap between the background and the bar. The answer was to resort to actually changing the PHP code to add a class around the text in the blue bars. And then going into each widget and adding a little padding.

Overall I’m pleased with the results and enjoyed the challenge.

View the finished site.

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