I decided that this place needed a different look, a move away from a “corporate” style and to something a little bit more fun. I don’t think this new look is going to be the final design, but it certainly makes a change from before.
I wanted a more grungy look, but just couldn’t find anything that I really liked the look of, so I headed over to the wonderful Woothemes for a look around. I’ve now got my eye on a few of their themes and will grab a few when I have a bit more time to actually work on them. For now I am using a customised free theme from their site called Typebased.
I’ve grungied it up a bit and made the footer into two extra widget-able sidebars so that it is a lot more flexible (why they didn’t do this themselves I have no idea, it took very little work). I’ve also integrated my heavily customised version of the Sticky Menus plugin to enable me to add “off-site” menu links without having to hack the headers.
Hope you like the new look.