I&#8217;ve settled on &#8220;Admired&#8221;
<p>I&#8217;ve settled on Brad Thomas&#8217;s &#8220;Admired&#8221; with the light white skin as the new theme for this blog. It&#8217;s a relatively new theme and is being actively maintained with a support forum. which relieves my main worry about my old Live Steam theme &#8211; it&#8217;s not going to fall out of sync with the WordPress engine any time soon.</p>
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<p>I put a significant amount of effort into finding a theme that could carry forward the clean, minimalist look of Live Steam. It wasn&#8217;t easy; most WP theme designers are in love with styles I find fancy, fussy, and overproduced. Even the default skin on this one is a bit too heavy for my taste, but the light white skin and a bit of font tuning has produced a look I find satisfactory.</p>
<p>Not perfect, though.  The designer made a common mistake &#8211; too much use of px dimensions in the CSS. The result is poor presentation on displays that are either extra large or have a higher than 72dpi pixel density, like my Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF.  Also the design is a bit too whitespacey, though not nearly as bad as the WordPress default TwentyEleven theme I had previously been experimenting with.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be doing some bug-fixing and tuning to fix these problem (and will push the changes upstream to the designer, if he&#8217;ll take them). So you may notice the look of the blog shifting and tightening up in subtle ways.</p>
<p>For those of you interested, I&#8217;ve put my variant of the theme on gitorious at </p>
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git://gitorious.org/wordpress-themes-collection/admired.git<br />
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<p>If you tried to clone one of my previous theme repos and got a permissions failure, it&#8217;s because I slipped up and gave out the form of the repo URL that only a committer can use.  The above should work for anyone, not that there are any changes there yet.  There will be shortly, I&#8217;m going to start on the px dimension cleanup today.</p>
<p>(Yes, I do install new theme versions in my blog&#8217;s copy of the theme with git pull. Run remotely via ssh &#8211; look, ma, no hands!)  </p>
