Ok so this is where I talk about my current theme which I named “speechbubble”, which I launched in September of 2007. I guess I should get out of the way the necessary info. first off I am hosted by GoDaddy.com, I run wordpress to power the blog, sitemeter for stats, and I protect my site by a share and share alike, non commercial creative commons license (if I somehow violate your copyright it is unintended, please contact me if something needs to be removed).
All of my code is written by myself except where specified, and all of my code is XHTML 1.0 and CSS compliant, but the same can not be said for the wordpress plug ins and various badges I have on this themes header and sidebar. I write my page with firefox in mind but it should work in all browsers, especially since I had to use a minor tweak to get things to appear right in internet explorer. If you run that browser please explore firefox, opera, safari, flock, or any other browser, your friendly neighborhood web designer will thank you.
plug ins & services
I use a number of different wordpress plug ins and javascript badges on my site as I already stated. In my header I use a hacked version of flickrRSS to bring my latest flickr posts to my site. Just below that I use twitter’s javascript badge to deliver my latest tweet to the site.
In my sidebar I use one of digg‘s javascript badges to bring the latest news that I find of interest over on digg, it is not a glimpse into what I find to be the most important news of the day but rather simply what has sparked my interest at digg lately.
To bring the latest tracks posted to my last.fm account I utilize the very well done wp audioscrobbler, lastly I use the cost of war javascript badge to present the current cost of the war in Iraq, and the irrepressible.info badge from amnesty international to present information that has been censored somewhere in the world.
I also use the well done ultimate tag warrior to provide folksonomy (tagging) on each of my blog entries, and wp lightbox to provide overlays not only for the hacked version of flickrRSS but also for any other graphics I decide as well.
Lastly I use the incredible askismet plug in to keep my comments spam free, gravatar to provide icons on my comments page and WillMayo.com to provide the cool speech bubbles around each comment post.
