DFT Digest Used To Look Like This…
Old DFT Digest Theme
Yes, over there to the left.
You may have noticed a change. Something a bit different… can’t put your finger on it?
Well I spent some time looking around for a new theme, a couple hours with Photoshop to make a new banner, even more time re-categorizing posts, and here we are. Like it? No? Oh well, it was free - ya get what you pay for. But I think the new theme has real possibilities. And although the old theme served us admirably - well, it was sooo… 2005.
The new format of DFT Digest, based upon Justin Tadlock’s magazine-style ‘Structure’ WordPress theme, is much more flexible, and makes full use of WordPress widgets, which will enable me to experiment a little more with various layouts, and organize things differently so as to support different types of content. Don’t ask me what types, I haven’t really figured all that out yet. I have some ideas…
The blog format, in general, is good for shorter, observational material, commentary, news items. But it suffers, especially when it’s a solo act, from lapses in posting and limited POV (no one can pretend to be conversant in all aspects of a discipline that spans test from board to chip, and from design to manufacturing). Many of most successful and influential blogs have multiple writers contributing to keep a regular flow of content. Then the problem is that if some one puts some time into a more in-depth article, it quickly gets shuffled out of the way as new posts are added to the top. This new theme will add the flexibility to leave a feature article at the top of the page for awhile.
I always wanted DFT Digest to be a place where one can find a wider array of content: informative, tutorial, up-to-date methodology, DFT-related news items - maybe even DFT job postings? It’s all good, as long as it’s all DFT, all the time.
One disclaimer: I’m new to the theme, and it may take me some time to get the look-and-feel I’m looking for. So don’t be surpised to see things being shuffled around a bit.
Thanks for tuning in…
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Hi John,
I like the new structure. I had thrown my own blog together kind of quickly and would like a better structure too. I’ll have to check this out.
harry
Thanks for feedback, Harry! Hay, I hear that Sean Murphy’s putting together another Blogger’s BoF @ ICCAD… Are you going up for it? I, myself, am saving myself for ITC.
Cheers,
JMF
Congrats on the snazzy new look! After I saw this post in my RSS reader, I had to surf over here to see it.
Some day I want to retire my “legacy” blogger template and move up to widgets and all this new-fangled stuff.
JohnB
Hey John! Thanks for the feedback. BTW, exactly what did the post look like in your RSS reader? Was there a image in it?
JMF
I use Bloglines as my feed reader. The graphic that you embedded in the post, Old DFT Digest Theme, shows up in the RSS feed. But the site design itself isn’t shown in the feed, of course.
cool - I didn’t know what to expect, I haven’t used graphics much with posts before…
Thanks,
JMF
just checkin’ you out! impressed
Oh no… the family found me!
The new theme looks good, John!
JL
Thanks JL!