My old GonZoville template was years old. I don’t think I’d touched it since like 2006. It was nice, but it was slow and well, old. So I’m starting to play around with some new themes. I’m looking for a clean black-on-white look. Something a little stark. Something that’s an homage to a writer – which is what Thompson was.

This one I’m trying today – the Structure Theme – isn’t too bad. But the typography messes up a bunch of plugins like Lifestream and even Categories (if I wanted to show post counts).

So the hunt continues.

Just updated to WordPress 2.3.2 … and so many plugins … may as well start the New Year with the latest code at least.

I’m testing out a new WordPress plug-in called “Sideblog” which provides for peripheral blog entries for short items of interest.

WordPress 2.02 introduced a lot of new features, including “Widgets” – which make structuring the sidebar much easier. So I upgraded GonZoville to a new template to take advantage of this new technology, and also to get a cleaner look to the site.