new theme coming soon
If my blog looks weird, it’s cuz I’m developing a brand new theme, just for all y’all wordpress fans out there. Can you say, “procrastination”? I can. Coming soon!
pop culture
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NAN upgrade
I apologize for the inconvenience to those of you who have already downloaded and/or made changes to my theme – note that these changes are only to the index.php file, so you may use your updated CSS files – and graphic.php and graphic.jpg files – as you see fit. It seems there was a minor bug in the index.php file, where it needed “next page” and “previous page” links in its categories and heavy months. I’ve also added this to the main index page, for the people who pop in and just want to keep reading back in time. While I was at it, I added a little feature that now lists the number of posts to any category next to its link in the menu. And finally, I added in support for if you use wordpress’ new feature to make pages! These should get listed just above the search bar in the menu.
Thanks to wordpress support for the help!
As always, download the theme from this post.
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some tasty treats
OK. I have a lot of work to do. So I am naturally surfing. Admittedly, I could also blog about the great shows currently up at the Goodman Gallery and Warren Siebrits, but I thought, well, I’ll get to those eventually. Probably this weekend. Instead, I’m gonna blog about blogs. Here are a couple of tasty ones I have added to my blogroll, courtesy of the SA blog awards (scroll to the bottom to vote – for me).
Here we go…
Maybe more to come. We’ll see how much reading time I have….
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south african blog awards
OK, so, admittedly, I didn’t even know these existed; I also find it ironic that today, of all days, I decided to post stuff about American politics. However, it seems that I, or rather this blog, have been nominated in two of 13 categories for the south african blog awards!
How cool is that? Somebody had to nominate me, and all, and I made it to the top ten w/o even knowing it!
I’m in the Best SA lifestyle blog category, and the Best design for a blog category. (And note that now, you can download this great design for your own blog. Get the NAN theme for WordPress here)
And if it wasn’t for gabbahead, and his comment on my page (and my follow through his links), I wouldn’t even know! Thanks, man.
Anyway, there are a bunch of really cool blogs listed, and some I hadn’t even known about (I have a lot of reading to do over the next few days) – rock on with SA blog culture! Do some of you guys want to be my friend? I’m a lot cooler than I, um, I’m a lot cooler than, um, no I’m not… but still.
If you are reading this, take 5 mins:
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for those of you who haven’t heard
Bush is a hypocrite
Howard Dean is the new DNC Chair (Democratic National Committee)
Hunter S Thompson commits suicide
South African Film Wins Top Berlin Award
This bunny will likely die
You can start a web log in 51 easy blogging steps
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wordpress theme for wordpress 1.5: NAN
NAN 1.5 is completely compatible with wordpress 2.0! the new version (NAN 2.0, dec 24, 2005) merely includes a thumbnail image for the new presentation area in wordpress
Note that I have discontinued the yellow version of the NAN theme, as it was not very popular; in fact, although it was the original color, even I stopped using it ;)
lots of bug fixes on latest version, updated 6 april 2005!
Well it’s the 2nd birthday for the nathaniel and the non-aggressive blog, and I thought I’d give a little gift to my dedicated readers (if I have any of those).
The new, improved and free NAN theme! New! also check out my latest theme: stuttering
That’s right! Now you, too can make a blog that looks just like (er, something like) this. It’s download-able, with easy instructions on how to insert your own image or menu up top (instead of my own flash menu), and in two colors: the original yellow (as displayed here), and white. It looks good on all browsers (i know of), and all you need is WordPress 1.5 installed, and access to your server.
The white looks just like this blog, but if you want images, try something like this:
click for larger image
Of course, you could go in and change colors yourself, and adapt the stylesheet as you see fit, but I wanted to make this REALLY easy for non-coders, too. All these folks really need to do is make an image to overwrite the default banner (up top – put the name of your blog in it), then plop the whole NAN folder into your own themes folder (located in wp-content), and turn it on.
Advanced coders: the top graphic is an include, so if you want a menu like mine, all you have to do is open up one php file and paste in a working menu, as you see fit!
Instructions are included in the download (~30kb each). Be sure your ftp application is set to “text” or “ascii” or “automatic” when you upload! Otherwise, it gets all weird looking in the admin panel….
Enjoy, and happy birthday NAN!
(PS – please leave comments and/or contact me with bugs, queries or suggestions!)
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