RenaisNet

I was preparing to design a new theme for this site and the others in the network from the ground up myself. I had been using a modified version of Scott Wallick's plaintxtblog theme. It's a great theme with a relatively simple three column layout, but to get the column widths and other things I wanted I was having to do a lot of tinkering and experimenting, plus I wanted to go for more of a 3 1/2 column layout. The first Big Thank You is to Scott who has produced a great simple theme that is simple enough for users with a little skill to modify to make their own. It's still going to be the core for several RenaisNet sites.

I was about to get to the nitty gritty of designing a new theme, which having produced one so simple I even called it UltraSimple, I can tell you is not a small undertaking. At the last moment, I was saved, when I ran across the 1 Blog Theme written by Javier García of the 1Blogr network.

Javier has the theme billed as «WordPress template with lots of customization options.» That's an understatement. The theme can be so thoroughly customized, from color to header images to column widths to the insertion of ads/text/scripts/objects virtually anywhere on the page, that the only way you'd know two different sites were both using it was by looking at the credit in the footer.

I expect to write a full review on 1 Blog Theme on my review site in the next few days. For now, I just want to note that I'm using the theme here and will be rolling it out across many of the RenaisNet sites as I have time to customize it. And I want to say a Big Thank You Muchas Gracias to Javier for a very nice piece of work.