"Design" Category

This blog has become schizophrenic; rather than blogging about one thing, it’s covering many aspects of my life. So I thought I’d find a way to present different views. I had already categorised my posts into general areas, now I needed a way to present the different views with some commentary. The best way was a set of category-based pages, with some text at the top describing the area of interest and then the category-based listing of posts below.

This post describes how I implemented a set of category-based page templates in WordPress, covering the design and implementation.
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One of the key drivers for changing the theme was to break out of the “boxiness” that was common to many themes available. The old theme, and many that are available consist of a main box for all the content (so the blog is in the middle of the page and not stretched to fit the browser window) and then a few standard boxes within it: a header across the top, a footer across the bottom, and the content and a sidebar filling the space in the middle.

I was looking for something that had a bit of overlap and a background that appeared to flow out of the content. Achieving this was a bit of a challenge. This post describes how I achieved the layout I wanted and the CSS I had to use to get there…
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