Or wait, is it ver­sion 4? There were a cou­ple of dif­fer­ent lime green theme vari­a­tions in the early days, but I’ve lost count.

After far too long, I have finally migrated this site to a WordPress-friendly host­ing account (Linux with Apache). Pre­vi­ously, I had been run­ning on a Win­dows Cold­Fu­sion server, which was great for Cold­Fu­sion apps but which Word­Press was never happy with. Stands to rea­son really — the whole thing (PHP on IIS) was a bit of a failed exper­i­ment. On the new host­ing server I’m able to update to the lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press and the lat­est ver­sions of all my favorite plu­g­ins and every­thing is hum­ming along very nicely.

There are obvi­ously the visual changes as well. I spent a long time con­sid­er­ing my options with the themes. I could have had a cus­tom theme designed, but I had trou­ble decid­ing what I really wanted. I found some so-called “pre­mium” themes that I liked visu­ally — but the markup under­neath was less than exem­plary. I debated with myself whether this mat­tered, but in the end I just couldn’t get com­fort­able with bad HTML.

But then, I found Yoko, a HTML5 theme with a respon­sive design (i.e. the lay­out adapts grace­fully to dif­fer­ent res­o­lu­tions) by Elmas­tu­dio. I applied some tweaks (by cre­at­ing a child theme), added my own header images, and the result is what you can see here. Yoko is free, but I would gladly have paid for the theme given the clean­li­ness and beauty of the under­ly­ing code. Elmas­tu­dio offers four other Word­Press themes (three com­mer­cial and one other free) and they all look clean and lovely, and well worth check­ing out.

I still have some work to do — for exam­ple, Fire­fox is not dis­play­ing the Google fonts cor­rectly — but for the most part, I feel it’s ready for prime time. So let me know if you find any­thing odd!