Coding Nightmare

Whew, this has been one heck of a week for us. This week has been wrap up week in school, where all of the teachers try and cram in as much work as they can to fit in the end of the first quarter. Thankfully this week is over and done with, and we are heading into the easy transitional week before the second quarter.

While we did our school work during the day, we worked on the new domain during the night. We were tired of the look of our blog because not only was it old, but it was also unoriginal. So many other people use it. If a theme was supposed to represent us, we wanted it to be original and different. However, we wanted to release the new blog to the public within the week, so we didn’t have time to make a whole new theme by ourselves. So instead of creating a whole new theme, we decided to choose one, and modify it to our liking.

I expected this to be rather easy, because the theme was already made I would just have to edit a little bit. However, as the hours spent on editing kept on increasing, I realized that this job was much harder than I anticipated. Many sections of the code required some rewriting, and to make the theme display correctly it took a lot of trial and error. Some parts of the website would seem to completely rebel, and not cooperate. Twice during this week I completely broke the website to the point where it just wouldn’t load. And the day we were about to release the website, I changed something in the code which made the design completely explode, almost literally. In short, it was a nightmare.

Despite all of our troubles, as you can see we finally got the theme up and running perfectly fine. Even though we are very proud of the way the theme turned out, we still feel that we need a completely new theme that isn’t based off of an existing one. During this November and into December, I will be developing a totally new theme from scratch that will make us feel original and different.

I hope you enjoy the new theme. Feel free to send any advice or critiques to our email, or just simply post a comment. We really appreciate them =)

~Josh B