I’ve just finished up a redesign and update of my blog here at Creative Creature. After a couple of years of using Nick La‘s excellent GlossyBlue theme, I decided it was high time for me (who calls himself a designer ) to design my own blog theme! The result is Recursive Loop, freshly renamed and polished and thoroughly updated.

I had fun with the theme. The underlying architecture supplied by Sandbox avoids a lot of the CSS headaches that can go along with blog theming, and allowed me to focus on a minimal, content-oriented theme that complements my recent site redesign. Where the Creative Creature site is dark and rich, Recursive Loop is light and airy, but both maintain the same colour scheme and typography choices. The developers of recent versions of WordPress have implemented a fairly flexible Widget system that allowed me to easily add Tag Cloud and Calendar widgets to the sidebar, both of which I find to be really useful navigation tools.

Let me know what you think! Anything not working quite right? Any posts showing up strangely within the new structure? I already had to tweak entries with Flash embedded in them, but I may have missed other little errors. I’ve got a batch of entries to post that I’ve been writing during a recent trip to the beautiful but internet-sparse South Island of New Zealand, so keep an eye out for them!