Welcome

§ December 30th, 2008 § Filed under themes § Tagged § 2 Comments

Welcome to the demo page for the Hanami WordPress theme. The theme has been reworked for WordPress 2.7 and includes a number of new features, such as threaded comments and sticky post styling on the front page. The mark-up has been slightly reworked as well, and the header image is easy to change. Simply replace header.jpg in Hanami’s image folder, with a header of your choosing. The dimensions of the image should be 960px by 125px.

Download the latest version here.

Jellyfish

§ December 30th, 2008 § Filed under Photography § Tagged , § No Comments

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Jellyfish at the Vancouver Aquarium

Sample Post

§ December 29th, 2008 § Filed under themes § Tagged § No Comments

T is a sample post that will show off the various styling points of Hanami. It should be noted that, when it comes to captioning images, there are two ways to do this that will result in different styles. To get the skinny on how to use various styles, checkout the readme that comes with the theme. Now, let’s try out a blockquote.

In response to these narratives, designed artifacts must exhibit behavioral narratives of their own that mesh successfully with those of the user. Unlike most mechanical artifacts, which have only a few simple behaviors that become obvious upon inspection, software and other digital artifacts require interaction design because of the potential complexity of their behaviors. Software is opaque to inspection, yet its possible behaviors are almost limitless. Cooper and Reimann, About Face 2.0

Often, when people are making posts, they might choose to include a list, either ordered or unordered. Here is a list of what I had for breakfast today:

  • scrambled eggs with spinach and cheese
  • toast with butter
  • orange juice
  • coffee

And here is my basic morning ritual:

  1. hit snooze
  2. hit snooze
  3. hit snooze
  4. stretch
  5. hit snooze
  6. roll out of bed and patter to the kitchen
  7. make coffee
  8. patter around until coffee is done
  9. check email

Decry

§ December 28th, 2008 § Filed under themes § Tagged § No Comments

pattern decry.org was an irreverent, self-referential webzine that hit the ether in 2002, had a good run, fizzled out, and then just kind of sat there. The witty, self-depricating posts were lost in the poorly rendered archive and the front page was blank, devoid of any information about the site or useful wayfinding pointers. Truly, I had failed in my job as a Decry Pimp (my listed occupation on social networking sites).

Taking advantage of the weeklong summer vacation that just passed, I decided to don my pimp suit and get to work on decry.org. This post outlines the steps I went through, exporting from MovableType to WordPress, sketching concept ideas, building mock-ups in Photoshop, and finally creating a WordPress theme in XHTML 1.0 strict. Which is to say, this post is more for me than for you. Kind of like my tattoos…

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