This entry was originally published at Darkest Before Dawn
Yes I have changed my theme yet again. The teaser posts were leading up to this and hopefully they make sense once now.
I discovered this theme thanks to Aj who is also using a theme by Derek Punsalan
Now the reasons why. Well first of all I saw the “drawer” effect on Aj blog and the geek in me took over, go on click about or blogs above, you know you want too 
The second reason for the change was that although I liked a lot of things about my previous theme there were things that I was never happy with. The banner didn’t really turn out as I wanted and I missed my old B&W inverted images, three of them have now returned. The drop cap was a nice idea but it broke some older posts and made blogging from Flickr impossible with out editing by hand afterwards.
Originally I had wanted to break away from the default WordPress layout but when I gave up writing my own template that kind of got lost.
I have kept most of the colour scheme from the previous theme, this was a last minute decision when I decided that the colours I had been using were too stark.
This theme gives me some more room to play with due to some stuff being tucked away in the “drawers”. So I have added recent comments and a message box. My recently played tracks from last.fm are now at the bottom of the page wit the technorati search box. The last.fm chart includes a preview button for tracks that they have in their system so you can get the usual 15 second preview by clicking the green speaker.
I will continue to tweak the design over the next few days and if the browser you use is doing something terrible with it then please let me know. I have still to run it through the checkers.
Oh and click the search link at the top it is way cool.
Oh and if you are reading this post on my LJ or Blogger mirror, sorry for wasting your time.
Kev
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