Tommy Collison

I’ve been playing around with different themes on the blog here over the past day or so. I was growing tired of themes in general, or at least the sort I’d been using. Blogs are all about the content that you write; yet so many (including mine up to recently) are so full of irrelivant bells and whistles. I go to blogs to read their content; that’s it.

I’m not alone in this either. At least, I don’t think I am. I believe that the rise of RSS can be attributed in part to people wanting to get the blogposts and not the entire blog.

I’m still looking for a theme I’m 100% happy with. I think it’s like mobile networks in Ireland though, in that I’m never gonna find one that I’m completely happy with. I’m going for something along the lines of Paul Graham’s essays, look-style wise.

People who are starting blogs often think that nobody will read their blog unless it looks pretty and has x or y plugin or whatever. The truth is that good content is pretty much all you need to make it big. As far as themes go, you’ll be fine so long as you don’t have a butt-ugly one (rule of thumb, no light text on dark backgrounds).