Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director. I wish I could say I liked the Wordpress theme he inspired a little better. There are a few customizations that you can make to it relatively easily that can improve it quite a bit, such as changing out the blue header for a Flickr image. In fact, it can work nice for a starter blog. Once you get beyond that, you need something a little more robust.
There are some great themes out there to choose from, such as Brian Gardner’s Revolution News that are tooled to handle the needs of a complex blog or a niche website. For only $99.95, it is a pretty good deal.
The theme that you choose for your website is one of the most critical pieces of your online brand. If you can budget it, a company like Unique Blog Designs that specializes in blog design can tailor a theme that fits with your unique needs.
Goodbye Kubrick, we hardly knew thee
As I am no stranger to Photoshop, I’ve banged out the new Bizquarium theme myself. This is a first cut — a beta theme. There is still a fair amount of fine tuning I need to do and I’m aware that it runs into a few problems on older browsers. I’ll work out the kinks over the next few weeks.
I’d love to hear what you think of the new theme as well as to find out if you are having any problems viewing it. If so, please let me know what OS and which browser version you are running and I’ll take a crack at those problems first.
Looking for a great way to test the compatibility of your website?
Bonus tip: – One of the services that I use to see how the websites I develop look in other platforms is Browsershots. This handy service will take screenshots of your website in multiple platforms to help you debug things. Even better, it is currently free.
If you are looking for a premium service that does pretty much the same thing but has a few extra bells and whistles and is a bit faster, take a look at BrowserCam.
