nyssabrowndesign

Nope. I haven’t redesigned yet. Actually, I guess in a way I have. But this design you can see is temporary and what I call my “Interval Theme” — basically, my theme in between my old design and my new design, though I do actually quite like it’s simplicity. It has the essentials, which is what I’m considering my aim to be in the final redesign. Maybe this is a minor preview of things to come. Or maybe not ;) I don’t want to give anything away!

But that isn’t why I’m using the theme. My reasons for a temporary theme are simple — I planned on having the redesign done and up by now but I’ve had other projects pop up, which I’ve put as my priority (I need the money, I won’t lie). Those things, along with my regular day job, reduces my time. But I’m losing traffic by leaving my site in maintenance mode. My solution was something for “in between” and that is what you’re seeing.

And yes, I might even release it as a basic theme for others once I’ve got the redesign finalized and all of my other projects out of the way. That is, after I’ve polished it up and made it a bit more interesting.

Since putting maintenance mode into action, I’ve upgraded WordPress to 2.5.1 and for those subscribed to my feed — yes! It’s fixed. What was the problem? I guess I was hacked at some point and it totally slipped the radar. A script was placed into footer.php which was generating a lot of viagra links right into my code, which was rendering the feed invalid. Damn that evil viagra. It’s everywhere! :| Luckily, that was the only thing touched.

What else? Oh, I forgot to check my download hits before I upgraded, as I knew the download manager I was using previously didn’t work with 2.5… oops. So, everything is at what I remembered it at last… which isn’t helpful because most of them I can’t remember hehe. I do remember though that my RSS Feed Icons were almost at 7,000 downloads, so I’ve just put them back at 6,500. I’m waiting for them to get to a nice rounded number to release a follow up ;)

As for what I’ve been doing that’s keeping me away from my redesign, I did yet another redesign for the purenarcotic.com blog:

Most challenging aspect was the fact that I used .png’s with transparency. Instead of using .png fixes for IE6, I skipped that part, created a new stylesheet and targeted IE6 specifically with different images. Doen’t look quite as good but it works. :)

That’s all for the moment. Look out for some upcoming posts with some freebies, and maybe even some tutorials.