If you know me, you might know about my privacy assignment from last year at UOW that involved sock puppets.  It was a creative assignment that I really threw myself into, and I kind of like that it was whimsical.  Whimsical enough that I set my Twitter profile photo to be one of the puppets.

So I figured, since it’s become associated with me anyway, why not rewrite my theme to reflect this?

The current theme uses a plug in to WordPress called Sandbox that allows you to just design your theme with CSS.  Now, I know PHP but the thought of digging through the loop just bugs me.  I like that Sandbox just gives me a clean slate to work off of.  The theme itself is tinted blue, to reflect my mood & personality and every 4 hours, one of 6 different photos from a recent trip to Canada appears.  It was an experiment in Eric Meyer’s ComplexSpiral and using time to change a theme (useful for automatically adding the Christmas logo to your website).

But, I hate it.  It’s too much blue.  It’s ugly.  The files are too large (as I put it to my class recently – I’m moving bathtubs through the internet).  And people don’t get the ComplexSpiral.  They get it, but they don’t GET it.  They don’t notice it, they don’t realise how cool, how special, how different it is.

As someone put it to me awhile ago “Oh yeah, I can do that on MySpace”.  Well, no, YOU can’t.  You’re just selecting a theme.  You’re not doing anything.  It’s like if you directed a movie and showed me the movie and said “see?” and I said “Hey I can do that too!” and I put a movie in the DVD.  I’m not actually making the movie, ya know.

So, here’s my plan, base a theme on sock puppets.  Scan buttons, socks, felt, wool, and start assembling the pics into something cool.

Now just to find the time…