The Mad Philosopher

In the spirit of minimalization, I’ve decided to greatly simplify the look of my blog. So I’ve adopted and slightly modified the White as Milk theme (v1.8) designed by Azeem Azeez.

Some of the modifications I made include:

• Set page width to 95%.
• Set posts as justified text.
• Set the <blockquote> text colour to #777 (grey) like the original WordPress Kubrick theme.
• Disabled the underlining of hyperlinks.

I like the cleanness of the design, and it looks good in text-based browsers (and on mobile devices). Importantly, it puts the blog’s navigational elements after the main text on each page. I’m not sure about the right-aligned sidebar on the left, though. For one thing, it doesn’t show the hierarchy of my categories at all well.

There is some colour to this theme, but only if I post some code:

/*Background Color of the page*/
    body {background-color:white;}

/*Body text color*/
    body {color:#333;}

/*Text color of the blog title in the header*/
    #header h1 a {color:#3b6ea5;}

/*Text color of the blog description in the header*/
    .description {color:#333;}

/*Links color*/
    a {color:#0066CC}

/*Links hover color*/
    a:hover {color:#333}

/*Headings color*/
    .post h2 a, #sidebar h2 {color:#333;}

/*Headings hover color*/
    .post h2 a:hover {color:#0066CC;}

/*Width of the entire page*/
    #page {width:95%;}

Also, in this same spirit, the sidebar now only shows the Search box, About text, a greatly reduced set of Pages, an Archives dropdown, Categories, and two bits of syndicated content that I produce elsewhere (the RSS feeds). The WordPress (v2.7) Widgets functionality made it super easy to set up and arrange these elements on the sidebar without requiring me to edit the sidebar.php code as in the past. It is very slick.

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