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Sorry for the very long absence, I have a long list of drafts but I can’t, for the life of me, give body to them. So I just created a wordpress theme that I planned some months before.

It is called Spartan, because I don’t have a knack for giving great names, it is a simple 2-column blue-and-yellow theme with minimal images. It is designed for 1024×764 screen resolution and is currently fixed but the footer is fluid. It is also widget ready for both sidebar and footer.

A few notes:

• If you’re going to put an image of yourself in your sidebar as well, put the class “avatar” so it would be given the right style
• When adding widgets to the footer, you might notice that it has such a big height, that’s because of the calendar
• The footer links are not required but I would appreciate it if you would keep it
• The theme has been tested in all major browsers but there’s just so many things I could do for IE, sorry IE lovers
• I made the theme usable and accessible by applying some usability and accessibility rules such as:
  1. Adding the skip links
  2. Using the proper tags
  3. Made use of a conditional tag so the homepage is not linking to itself, I also did the same in the single posts
  4. Making links stand out
  5. Most of the colors have enough color contrast except the foreground and the background color of the h1 but I assume it’s just right since it is huge enough

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