Some of you may have noticed a few quirks in Blog24 layout and design. These are caused by plugins that are being used to improve the site but their output has not been styled yet.
Sorry for any vexation caused by irksome layout. Be assured that these little oddments will be fixed as soon as possible.
I suppose that there is a lesson or two to be learnt here:
There have been a number of steps taken to convert Nurudin Jauhari’s Indian Muslims (IM) Wordpress theme to the design that you see before you today.
As this theme uses images in the header area I thought it wise to replace them with my own work. I chose simple images that were not too busy and distracting and cropped them to the correct size before uploading them to the server.
The next image I changed was the favicon.ico – as shown here: 
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Although there were a number of minor images to change or edit (those used for subtle effects) the last main graphic that required changing was the background. I wanted to keep it simple but somewhat random. I took the aforementioned favicon and pasted it onto the plain background in fairly random places, obviously it was coloured accordingly and random single pixel dots were added just add a very slight suggestion of texture.
At the moment blog24 is using a theme designed by Nurudin Jauhari and will slowly adapt it for my needs over the next couple of weeks, so don’t be surprised to see frequent changes during this time. Although the current theme is acceptable I am busy designing a custom theme from scratch, when time permits.
I took the decision to start publishing before developing a custom theme as there could be big changes when Wordpress 2.5 is finally released and this could delay the launch further. Also, as with any new website or blog, it takes time for them to be publicised and listed on numerous directories and search engines. At the time of writing I have not even started that process as more content is required, another reason for publishing using a third-party theme.
As time passes I will document the progress of blog24’s development and overall progress and will include techniques used to publicise the site along with summaries of their success or otherwise under the category ‘Blog24 Progress’. Hopefully this will become a useful series for blogger beginners.
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