Right, I’m going to tell you something about my WP theme and why I like it. It’s called Simplish - It’s a WordPress variant of the Scribbish theme for blogs (definition taken from it’s official site). It’s really that simple and yet it looks awesome. It looks clean and nice. It’s classic! I love the fact that it’s really easy to customize. The codes are easy to follow because it doesn’t use any additional confusing classes and functions so customizing is easy. It supports widgets and it supports gravatars too! Nifty, eh? Well, actually it has more than that which you can read from here.

Choosing Simplish…

I was first looking for a theme suited for me, that is, being a programmer. I wanted to have a simple and clean layout. No fancy decorations and not colorful. I want to get away from the “designer” concept of a blog. I know looks is important but for me it doesn’t matter (in this case). So after seeing Simplish I knew this is the one I’m looking for. It has the right simplicity. However, having said that I wanted a theme that will suit me being a programmer, I never meant to use this blog talking about just programming but also for other things I want to rant. I just want to make myself feel that I’m in my zone.

What can you say?

If you’re a big fan of premium themes and you prefer using colorful ones for WP, then I guess we have a different taste. I myself has taste for design. I know what looks good for me by just looking at it. However in this blog it’s not the design I’m after. I just want to give it a nice and clean look. If one of my colleague sees this he might say:

Why is your blog like that? What happened?

or maybe

I like your old blog better. It looks nicer.

Right. That’s something people might say because I’ve used the fancy ones before. But not this time. I’m sticking to this until I can find a better one which is also simple. But I doubt I can see simpler and as elegant as this.

Update: 02.20.2010 - I just made this theme a slightly colorful one so I’m taking back whatever I’ve said here that I don’t want this colorful :p