Tw3nty Tw3lve

As any recent installer of WordPress should know, along with the blogging software there comes a beautiful, semantic theme full of all sorts of widget–y goodness. The latest theme is called ‘Twenty Eleven’. I don’t use that theme here, because I make my own.

The amazingly–uninspiredly–named Twenty Eleven has all the tools you need for a fully–functioning website. It also contains everything that you don’t need for a fully–functioning website. It’s like the Death Star in Return of the Jedi, only with a bunch of stuff they didn’t really need (like the Death Star in A New Hope)

For the past four years I’ve used a temporary theme. It was supposed to be a temporary theme, I suppose. It was just until I got something working that was much better. I worked on a couple of minor changes over the years, but I never went full–bore into another theme. Havok has been the only theme I’ve used since I acquired d3ft.com back in 2009.

The main reason I stopped working on the new theme was other projects, real life, and changing my priorities for the site. One version was built that had comments, three columns, and was running Movable Type. It lasted all of one month before returning to how it looks now. If you know what you’re doing, you could tell this is actually version 2.5 of Havok.

I also wanted to add it to the WordPress codex, but never got the energy to create two versions (with all the blow–upable extras like the prison cells and vents that go all the way to the core of a small–moon–sized that really should have a cover or something don’t you think?). But they have some ridiculous requirements to get it in, including licensing and making it Widget–friendly and able to use Gravatar in comments. Hard to make the Gravatars show up when you don’t have comments.

As I continue to revamp the site (remember the progressive enhancement?), the biggest time–sink is just making all my goals fit in the theme. I’m not even sure I’ll ever finish it. But, in a real and serious way, that’s really going to be important for the site in the future.