I’m working right now on designing and implementing a Wordpress theme from the ground up. Once it’s done I’ll use variations of it here, on the Apocalypse Blog and on Shiny Things.

The basic layout I want uses three columns. The right-most column has information about me and the blog and short lists of recent articles from the other blogs. The middle column is the article(s). The right column is meta-information, subscription links, tags, stuff that lets you know about this article or lets you navigate around the blog.

There’s also a header with the logo and search box, and a footer with a contact link, a help link, and copyright information.

It’s going well, and I’ll write up some notes about developing your own Wordpress theme once I’m done. But the 3 column thing is really difficult to do well with CSS.

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