David Dallet’s weblog

Note: at the time you’re reading the post, maybe the theme would not be the same as now… Who knows?

I tried to look quickly for a new theme for my blog, and although there may be lot of themes, it’s not easy to choose… There are some obvious characteristics of a theme and some which aren’t…

Among first visual aspect, here are some of my criteria :

• I want something that is quite readable, ie the size and the font should be ok.
• I don’t want lot of pictures (part of the theme), not on this blog.
• I prefer a two column layout, with the main one taking more than 70% of the width
• I do have some personal preferences on the colors and shapes, too hard to describe…

Among general quality, I have other ones:

• Of course all should pass the w3c validator.
• The aspect should be ok after increasing two or three times the font size ([Ctrl]+[+] under Mozilla).
• The aspect should be ok at various screen resolution and/or browser windows size.
• It should be ok with all compliant browser and it should not be horrible under Internet Explorer (I never say IE is not horrible but the fact is that too much people use it).

Well do you think it’s too easy with so little criteria… In fact, after trying I discovered than I do have more criteria:

• I want all widget on the right column to display correctly.
• I want all elements on the main column to display correctly too (ie I tried a theme which don’t display tags… Really annoying, the worse is that I don’t see the problem in a few seconds…)

And here the problem comes, it seems that I have to much criteria, at least too much to make the search easy… Maybe I’ll consider writing a theme myself… Who knows?

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