joe randel's art dump

I’m sure that regular visitors have noticed the change in the blog look.  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying out a new WordPress theme.  I’m still on the fence about it and I’ll let you in as to why.  I bought one because I loved the gallery it had and the layout it presented.  It looked very snazzy and had what I was looking for to make this area evolve to what I wanted it to be.  The issues I’m having with it is time.  It might sound trivial, but I don’t have the time to put in to doing lots of leg work behind the scenes.  Which is what I like about my current theme.  I can insert an image and it will become the title image of the current post.  It will scale it properly to fit the blog, no worries.  Quick and easy.  With this new one, I need to make sure the image is the proper size to fit the blog or it will overlap the side bar and make things look crappy.  Also, posting an image at the top of the post will not make it the title image.  I’ll need to make a thumbnail or smaller size image and add that in a separate section.  This will totally break the whole blog, as none of my previous posts have these special thumb nails and so will lack a title image.  Sigh…  The only work around is to go back and make thumbnails for every post I’ve done which is something I’m not willing to do.

I feel that I made a decision to buy something with out really making sure it’ll fit what I need, but was sold on the flashiness of it.  I still love the gallery set up it has and the slider image on the top (I really love that) and the clean look it has.  But it’s not worth breaking the rest of the content.  I’ve found another theme and I’ll give it a try.  It was free and seems to have the things that I want as well.  I hope it won’t break things as well.  If it does, I’ll go back to old theme and find a new gallery set up that works.  Sorry for the crazy back and forth on the look of things while I figure it all out.  Hopefully it won’t be for long.