{"id":314,"date":"2008-10-29T22:26:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-06-23T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:10:09","slug":"finding-myself-through-wp-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/2008\/10\/29\/finding-myself-through-wp-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding myself through WP themes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good Evening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my 3rd times in this week alone I replace my WordPress Theme. Why? I just got fed up with the old themes. I just don&#8217;t like it anymore. Usually, I would restrain myself from keep on replacing themes. It requires tremendous works. A theme is just a theme, but, to enter www.munmon.com, a theme must have many things that amuse me. I am very picky. Yes, I am. Colours, CSS, customisation and appearance all must pass my Rigid &#8220;<strong>Seal of Quality<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had my own theme for the past few years. It was called Orange: munmonlisme. It was Hemingway inspired theme. That was my best self-created theme. CSS certified, XHTML certified and W3C compliant. All gone due to too inevitable computer disaster. And, I failed to pay my bill (my previous web hosting).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just don&#8217;t have the time to start from scratch. Forget about creating a new WP theme. WP has changed a lot since the last time I created my own theme. I have much better things to do. Shall we take a look at the themes I have used? Hmmm. Let me see&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I 1st set-up the new munmonlisme (this is version 2), I searched for a theme that really appealed me. So enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flisterz.com\/demo\/index.php?wptheme=faleonis\">faleonis<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flisterz.com\/\">flisterz<\/a>. Used it for about 4 months. When I found out this theme did not render me shadow properly (your theme is great flisterz, but please blame Microsoft for their stupid IE) in IE, I started to search for new theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webdemar.com\/demo\/?wptheme=deLight\">deLight<\/a> seemed to appeal to me. Oh. Sorry, this theme is created by Simon, a web designer from German. This theme is pretty nice, but, I don&#8217;t like the wasted space in the sidebar. Scrap this one too. Then, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/themeterminal.com\/demo\/\">Ship Ahoy<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/themeterminal.com\/\">Theme Terminal<\/a>. I seem to like this one. Must be for the pirate&#8217;s naming convention. Ahoy. I just love to be a pirate. Even dream to become one. The good old-time pirate with that amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jolly_Roger\">Jolly Roger<\/a>. Sweet huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yarrrrr! Tis me blog. Arrgh!, See Ya Chum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Evening,<\/p>\n<p>This is my 3rd times in this week alone I replace my WordPress Theme. Why? I just got fed-up with the old themes. I just don&#8217;t like it any more. Usually, I would restrain myself from keep on replacing themes. It requires tremendous works. A theme is just a theme, but, to enter www.munmon.com, a theme must have many things that amuse me. I am very picky. Yes I am. Colours, CSS, customisation and appearance all must pass my Rigid &#8220;<strong>Seal of Quality<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I had my own theme for the past few years. It was called Orange : munmonlisme. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/warpspire.com\/hemingway\/\">Hemingway<\/a> inspired theme. That was my best self-created theme. CSS certified, XHTML certified and W3C compliant. All gone due too inevitable computer disaster. And, I failed to pay my bill (my previous web hosting).<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t have the time to start from scratch. Forget about creating new WP theme. WP has changed a lot since the last time I created me own theme. I have much better things to do. Shall we take a look to themes I have used? Hmmm. Let me see&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>When I 1st set-up the new munmonlisme (this is version 2), I searched for a theme that really appealed me. So enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flisterz.com\/demo\/index.php?wptheme=faleonis\">faleonis<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flisterz.com\/\">flisterz<\/a>. Used it for about 4 months. When I found out this theme did not render me shadow properly (your theme is great flisterz, but please blame Microsoft for their stupid IE) in IE, I started to search for new theme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webdemar.com\/demo\/?wptheme=deLight\">deLight<\/a> seemed to appeal me. Oh. Sorry, this theme is created by <a href=\"http:\/\/webdemar.com\/\">Simon<\/a>, a web-designer from German. This theme is pretty nice, but, I don&#8217;t like the wasted space in the sidebar. Scrap this one too. Then, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/themeterminal.com\/demo\/\">Ship Ahoy<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/themeterminal.com\/\">Theme Terminal<\/a>. I seem to like this one. Must be for the pirate&#8217;s naming convention. Ahoy. I just love to be a pirate. Even dream to become one. The good old-time pirate with that amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jolly_Roger\">Jolly Roger<\/a>. Sweet huh?<\/p>\n<p>Yarrrrr! Tis me blog. Arrgh!, See Ya Chum!&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/2008\/10\/29\/finding-myself-through-wp-themes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[85,11,205],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-munmonlisme","tag-programming","tag-ranting","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NeyD-54","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munmon.com\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}