Quantum Forest

I took a short break of writing while trying to upgrade, change and dust off my Plus Tree site. The site has been in a state of abandonment for a while, and I used some time to move it to Wordpress, with the aim of standardising on a single blogging platform.

After moving the few posts contained in that site I started thinking of the design of the site and got stuck. One of the nice things of Wordpress is the huge number of templates available. At the beginning I was quite happy to browse places like Wordpress themes, or one of the numerous Best Wordpress themes sites, which aim to be link magnets. However, one problem was the realisation of how themes are just a veneer of design: essentially most of them are applying pretty pictures and colours, many times trying to emulate real life objects (a folder, a paper clip, a paper pad).

But, what is a web ‘page’? I mean, what is the essence of a ‘page’? How important is the actual content versus the bits and pieces of colours that we are hanging to that content? At what moment the ersatz paper pad becomes important enough to warrant its presence?

I was struggling with this when I decided to roll out my own theme — although I still have a weak spot for plain text themes (I use one in Tren de carga). It will take me a while, but I will do it. Meanwhile I will stick to my current themes: Thirteen (in this site) and Sandpress (in Plus Tree).