Gregg H. Hawkins

I’ve been quite a busy bee these last few days. Other than the fact that I’m getting things done last minute before I go back to college on Saturday, I’ve been editing a WordPress theme that I want to use for my blog. The WordPress theme is called Ayumi, which is named after a popular and influential Japanese pop singer, and can be found at Jauhari dot net.

I’ve edited the style.css quite a bit from the original colors to fit my personality and wants. This theme provides exactly what I’ve been looking for since I started to blog. It’s a great design which provides an easy read and a unique look. There are still a few things I’d like to fix and I’ll hopefully get to those by the end of the week. For now, this will have to do.

Ayumi WordPress Theme
The Ayumi WordPress theme features:

• Green, Red, and Blue Color Scheme
• 2 Right Sidebars
• Widget Ready
• About Text Under Header Image
• Tested on WordPress 2.1.x and 2.2.x

Future Things to Look For
As I mentioned earlier I have a few things to tweak here and there. I tried to get the header image to work with the AdRotator plugin, but I’m still having problems with it. For now, I’ve included a header image of a baseball field at night, which represents to follow your dreams. Baseball was something that was a part of my life for a long period of time and something that I still have a passion for. When (hopefully) I figure out how to get the images to rotate you’ll see images relating to my goals and dreams for the future. Items that reflect and define my character. Hence the quote, “It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.”

I also ran into a problem with the Adsense Deluxe plugin. For some reason, after a long awaited update for WordPress going from 2.0.x to 2.2.2, my Adsense codes decided to create an error. Until I figure that out what the problem is I won’t be integrating any Adsense blocks within the content.

Lastly, after updating to the newest WordPress (2.2.2) I realized something else. Every apostrophe in posts made before I updated WordPress was changed to ’. I’m kind of dreading the fact that I’m probably going to have to edit every single one of my posts and change the ’ characters back to an apostrophe.

Suggestions and Feedback
So, what are your thoughts on the new theme? I know there’s a lot of work to be done on the theme, but I would greatly appreciate feedback and suggestions. Do you like the new theme and the colors I used? Did you find any errors on any pages? What needs improvement?