9/21/08: This is one of my favorite layouts I’ve ever made.
After realizing that the current layout has been up for a while with no actual entry about it yet, here I am. Let Them Eat Cake just started out as an experiment (meaning that the layout will be up for a while). It originally began as an experiment revolving around dynamic/conditional sidebars, because I despise widgets. It grew into a more pages, better organization, and incredibly neat little features.
The new pages that I added were: movies (I watch a bunch), Contact Form (I didn’t have one before), and Links (apparently I didn’t have a link list either).
The organization started at the root of the sidebar, and ended up tidying up my CSS (today). The sidebar features sub-pages, additional links, related posts, a no submit button search button, and a category list. If you notice I decorated my blockquote tags, and I’m using unordered lists more often. I also used Jordan’s installed CSSTidy (lol).
The little features I incorporated were: Custom Error Pages from Andrew Ferguson, an easier way to subscribe to my feed, and a credit section.
Let Them End Cake: Finite
9/31/08: I’m going through and deleting and editing entries today ‘for your viewing pleasure’. Hehe, I went back on my words, and now I’m going back and retagging everything today. 
I wish Wordpress has an archiving feature. I was flipping through some of my old entries, and I realized I just want to remove some them ‘for your viewing pleasure’. I have really old annoying entries, that just scream WTF. The thing is I can’t delete any of them no matter how stupid they are. (de/at/tachment issues) I can’t let them go.
I realized tags [for me] are useless. I don’t do the whole tag everything and anything ‘thing’. My posts are really random anyways. So I’m deleting every current tag, and starting anew for this post. Site Construction and Improvement 2008.
I also did a clean up of categories and now I have no uncategorized entries (cue applause). I deleted unused categories as well (I didn’t actually make an entry about all of them: reference). But the ones I deleted were ones that I would never write under again.
Just one more thing, what do you think about the font? I’m using Tahoma 11px. I think the font is a little flat for my taste. I don’t want to use Arial, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, or Verdana. What does that leave me?
PS. The reason I’m doing all the cleaning up, because I’m trying to conserve space. According to my little plugin, I’m using 1.3 MB for WP, so I just want to slim down a bit.
It’s funny how much work this layout actually was. Simplicity isn’t easy. It was impossible to get the rounded corner to fit right below the header. I couldn’t really figure out where to put my Q*Bee link, my Twitter roll (9/21/08: Twitter Roll, nice), or my Flickr feed. I don’t like how my sidebar is arranged anymore (eww widgets).
For my next layout, I’ll be using a simpler less Wordpress like sidebar organization. The layout didn’t really change much from the last layout in terms of entry and comment organization. Aesthetically very different, but not so much internally. I’ve begun working on the next layout already!!
Final note: Happy New Year!
I scraped the original idea to use the palette ‘washed up sea’.
I finished the layout I’ve been working on. The inspiration was mainly based on crayons chose by a classmate of mines, the colors were black, purple, and a shade of teal. It was very hard to recreate the teal color, I had to break out PhotoShop to select one.
I had a lot of grief with the header and sidebar. Getting enough padding on the sidebar was difficult, and choosing the right radius for the rounded corner was confusing. ‘Shaping’ the header was just very weird. I originally started out with a block of color, than I changed it to a gradient with a triangle cut-out pattern at the bottom. I really liked the last one but it was impossible to include a triangle pattern on the sidebars (when I did it it looked great, I just didn’t figure it out until I tested it) because of its fluid design.
The text was really easy to do, and colors were super easy to pick. But I do have to change the date, and comment styles, I don’t want to reuse as I’m currently using the style for my other site. This layout counts as the January Layout.
