Choosing Themes | So The Very Ridiculous

Posted by Ari in March 12th, 2008

Azlie Alias, who prefers to be referred to as Ari on the web, is the founder of the word Moojik. Moojik means Wonderful, in an abstract form. Ari is also the founder of the term Moojikulous which means, To hell with everyone, as long as I think its right, it should be!

Anyone noticed?

This is practically the most minimalistic theme I’ve ever had for myself. It’s as good as not having any style sheet at all, agree?

But what do you really think? Should I just stick to this or go get something else with a little bit more fun & graphicky?

To be frank, I am still not decided on the perfect theme to tweak. Initially, I tested a few magazine style themes and found that writing short entries was a hassle and furthermore content for now is still bare. I switched to several others but found that too many others were basing on the nice looking popular themes which I rather not have if the possibilities of sharing a template with 50,000 others on the web.

A few things I gathered that is essential to have for my taste in a theme for this blog.

1) It has to be fast loading. I hate sites which are slow loading. That was one of the reasons why I decided to change my web hosting provider.

2) An archive page is a must have. Especially best if it’s archived in a way one could navigate by year, month, day, most commented, most viewed, by category, by tag, by the most trackbacked.

3) A Sitemap page to be available is a bonus.

4) I prefer a fluid width. Gives me the flexible feeling. Relieves you the hassle of scrolling left to right and left again.

5) SEO friendly with h1, h2 h3 placed strategically.

6) Lesser javascripts but plugin and widget friendly.

7) Homepage that shows 3 column but a single column entry page.

Good commenting experience with avatars and unique author identity for the author’s own comments or comment replies.