WordPress Logo Fun
So, here’s my entry for the Logo Fun, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License . Thanks for looking. //Update 20091024: oh well, my entry didn’t make the cut, but I had fun working on it and the finalists were quite creative. You can go vote for them on the voting page.
Hmmm, just after 02:30; think it might be wiser to stay out of the forums and head for some sleep? I agree!
Posted on 19 October 2009, in photography, Saw it on the WWW and tagged automattic, wordcamp, WordPress, WordPress.com. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
I happened to see what seems to have published as the 10 best entries, and I was shocked. Shocked. I sat there in disbelief and feeling pale. For years I have had an obsession with these icons that come with all MS Windows that I know. (I have not looked at Vista yet). I mean those little icons that signify “desktop” or “hotmail” or “Paint” or “Explorer”. And then one reads that privately he bought some Leonardo drawings.
And I kept trying to figure out what this means, such a broad predilection for little cheap-looking ugly things.
You told me about this theme of yours, and yes, I like it. However, I weon’t change yet, because the two themes that I mentioned at the support forum are standard WordPress themes and old, too. Both have the “hide text” button, which of course made me try >50 times, on the notion that if there is a button, there must be a function…
Hi Cantueso-Thanks for the visit. There’s a saying in Hebrew “Of taste and smell, there is no argument” or something close to that. It means that not everyone finds the same things pleasing. So it goes.
About the problem with the Header Text, I answered you in the Support forums, but there is a problem with Kubrick, as you cannot hide the text nor can you change the color of the text in spite of the buttons. Best report it directly to Support. However, Contempt works just fine at hiding text.
Yes. I wrote to “Support” and they fixed it instantly. “Kubrick” is the WordPress default theme.
As to “De gustibus disputandum non est”: but gustibus is all anybody ever talks about! So what is the proverb doing?
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Yesterday, as I was looking at this blog, I found myself wondering. You don’t list the “Top posts” in your sidebar. Why not? I thought that blog readers only read whatever is listed as a top post.
Kubrick is the default theme and was very popular, sometime around WP 1.5, LOL! Things have moved on since then.
Top posts, hm. Guess it depends on how you define “top”. If you mean the “most read” posts, then they are the ones that have to do with how to work with (not against) WP.com, so hit that “blogging” category in the Category cloud in the sidebar.
But that may not be what I consider my “top” posts. I blog about all sorts.
Thanks for the constructive conversation, always welcome.
But the top posts are the things that people read. Whatever is listed there will be read. So the idea is to use that list to get readers for things which otherwise would never make it by giving one of those things a few clicks in the morning. That helps a post get to the top list. The poor thing will drop off again and will need more help, but after some time he will become a fixture on the list! And move up !
So I try to launch another one. By now I have become quite good at it, though on my second blog it has not yet been successful, (but I know why) and the last one, the one on a Kubrick theme, is only there to try out new things. The idea is not to get more hits, but to get at least part of the hits for my babies.
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I thought that Kubrick was old, but that doesn’t really matter. I can’t keep it because of those arrows that appear under the header telling the reader to go left or right when I want him or her to go directly, exclusively to the top posts…..where they will read the first two or three, then get bored — and read one of the last ones, the one that I put there!
I did not know that the cloud category had a purpose.
First paragraph, last line: “he” for a post. It is not a joke or an irony, but a slip, because I am Swiss and my first language was German.
nice logo Jen
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