The new theme is up and running. Since started Productive Scholar, getting a new theme was on top of my todo list. The old theme looked fine, the main problem was that it is one of the most popular theme for Wordpress blogs (the blog platform I’m using), which means it is used by thousands of other blogs.

The new theme is not a custom one because I’m not good at web design and custom themes are not that cheap. I decided to take a free web template called terrfirma 1.0 by NodeThirtyThree and make a Wordpress theme out of it (adapt it to work with my web platform). Furthermore, I modified it to fit my custom needs (two sidebars, slightly different style). Since this theme is not easily available for other blogs, Productive Scholar should have a fairly distinct look.

The photo on the top right is the view at the end of the Main Mall at the University of British Columbia. It was taken by flickr user sillygwailo.

I’m very pleased with the result and I hope you’ll like it too.