The design on this blog? Sure! It’s definitely okay!

Actually, I’m hours from releasing its twin version that’s much cleaner and not so girly, has the expanding/collapsing picture header like the one seen here, but 3 columns with 7 widgetized sections of varying sizes to add lots of content outside the RSS feed, but keep things un-cluttered, and the newest post is outside the loop (old posts) allowing the new content to be styled different from the old entries, and more content to be placed after the first post (like the “follow me around the web” section seen in this blog.)

It’s been a to code, at least for me that I’m just a blogger. There is a lot of code in that one….some JavaScript on top of the CSS and PHP… and it’s all yours if you want it. But no WordPress? Sounds tricky.

You grew up in Orinda? That’s near Berkeley, right? Cool! I’m not far from there. I studied part of elementary school and middle school in San Francisco City, then high school over in the East Bay, and college in Italy and Davis, but I’ve been bouncing from the SF bay, Mexico, and Italy for quite a while now.

Okay… I’m going to go finish that code. I’ll Email you soon.

You mean the wood tone? I hadn’t thought about it, but I’ll definitely look into it. You know, Jeff in Italy is the original desk design, even though its look is very different, and I just love that coffee cup! but I couldn’t use it in the OpenSource version since I only had the rights for one blog only, so I took a picture of my very own coffee mug *sigh* Though there are more options overat iStock, but I’ll see what I can do with my camera, too…

The theme is only available for download at the official WordPress site, and I added several options here to spice things up a bit. I emailed you the link, hope you received it. Let me know how things work out… enjoy!

Gracias! Yup. They did arrive, but I was removing bugs from the new theme that’s about to be released for WordPress fans, and I just saw them. Last night I sent you a long reply. Sorry for the delay. I’ll keep in touch

Ciao Nick!

How are you? Isn’t the header fun? Readers go click-happy with it, which is very, very cool, and very much the point. I’m actually still working on the code for the new theme, which is proving to be much more complicated than the desk theme, but it will be finished sometime today.

Since it usually takes a few days to go live at the WordPress site, I’ll also upload it here tonight into a blog post in order to activate comments.

So Nick, you can already start choosing your pictures. The theme’s default settings are for 6 images, sized 500px by 333px. But you do have the option of placing as many image-links as you’d like, and they can be as high as you’d like. They just have to be the same size.

<Ciao e a presto,

Martha

Actually I did change programs while in Italy! My goodness, but that was 5 or 6 years ago.

Though the University study center in Italy made me go back to California and start the Visa process all over again. Once I was at the Italian consulate in San Francisco, they told me that I could have extended my stay to the second Italian University while in Italy. So, one place said one thing, the other said another. I hope you were able to change programs without too much trouble.

Ciao Sonya!

Wow, I hadn’t thought about this in a while. Well, I’ve always been surrounded by different languages, and I grew up bilingual, but I remember one day mom mentioned to me that all her life she dreamed of studying languages and seeing other countries, and that stood with me. Fortunately, after studying college in Europe, I was able to continue living abroad and improve my other languages.

Very foggy San Francisco day, you walk through the garden and a light mist falls all around you. You can’t see it but you can feel it. The ground below you seems shiny, as if it had rained, but it’s just a funny, funny day…