Before I came up with this theme, I was messing with one of the Woo Themes called Irresistible.  In a matter of fact, I was so zoned into modifying that theme, that I was completely stuck.  My boyfriend also told me that isn’t “me” that the theme was too dark and grungy.  He said I need something “happy”.  Got a few ideas of “happy grunge” and things like that, but just couldn’t incorporated the idea.  After a while, I just decided to scrap the entire thing and started off somewhere else.

I started to work on the logo first, and I had a good idea what I want.  I really like the + signs embedded inside the logo that because that translate my idea of “learning” – also inspired by video games such as The Sims.  When a Sim learns something new, it gets a ++ sign over their heads as in gaining level.  After working on the logo for a while and picked two colors I really like, Orange and Dark Gray – I took a break:

Then I randomly grabbed a photo book lying around on my desk – which was by Getty Images – titled Infinity.  Flipped a few pages, and there I had it:

Then I drew the layout on a piece of paper, along with the logo I already had to glue the ideas together.  I’ve always been a sucker for simple designs, and flat colors.  So it is ended up as what it is right now.  A few people suggested, actually 5 of 3 people suggested that it is better centered.  Up till yesterday, the layout was still left aligned.  So there, I’ve taken other people’s advice and made it centered.  I am still fixing minor things here and there, but the site looks 90% the same across most major browsers – especially IE6.  There are a few plugins seem to be broken, because it is screaming when you open the site in IE – need to sort that out.  Eventually, I’ll have to fix up Sociable because it has a lot of invalid HTML/CSS, even though my theme is validated.

One last note, if you are using WP-Spamfree‘s contact form, the Submit button alignment will probably drove a lot of you crazy.  That because the author add a <label> before each <input> field excepted the Submit button.  If you dig inside the plugin and find the “contact form” and insert <label></label> before the submit button, you will able to adjust the alignment a lot easier.

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