Posted by Noel Cower on the 8th of October, 2008 at 12:12 am.  This post has 5 comments.

Mimetastic is the theme I designed for this site.  The point was to create something relatively simple and, preferably, unique.  Of course, nothing is unique, but it still stood out a bit at the time for being single-column and completely without gigantic sidebars and all that.

Personally, I think Mimetastic is a good theme for personal journals and miniature portfolios like mine, as there is little in the way to distract you from the most important thing on the site: the content.  At least that’s what’s important to most people, I’d imagine, unless your primary goal is to spam everyone, I suppose in that case the last thing you’d care about is content and you’d be more interested in modifying your theme to point to random URLs that will give you some sort of income.  Don’t know how it works, so back to the theme.

I’ve tried to keep the code relatively clean, but I’m sure that in the few Wordpress upgrades I’ve gone through, the code has become far less sane in the process.  I’ve never claimed to be good at maintenance, and would like to develop a new theme.  However, until I get off my ass and do that, Mimetastic works well for what I need, and in the case that it does the same for you, please leave me a nice comment saying so.  I will not sign you up for porn sites.

Also, there are no screenshots because you are looking at the theme right now.  Cool, huh?



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Posted on the 11th of October, 2008 at 2:48 pm.

Just wanted to let you know that this theme is perfect for my needs. I am a programmer, but I don’t really have the artistic touch. I wanted something simple and clean, and your theme really stood out in the hundreds I looked at. Thanks for all your work!

Posted on the 20th of August, 2009 at 6:14 pm.

I love this theme – it’s perfect for me, but I am trying to get the links to show up. I’m using a version of wordpress provided by the host and can’t edit the code – what’s up?

Posted on the 6th of October, 2009 at 6:25 pm.

Noel,
Thanks for a nice template. When I try to use Recent Posts or Tag Cloud, it works fine in Firefox and pre IE8 versions, but breaks in IE8. Would you happen to have a fix for this? Or have a way to show posts or tag cloud without breaking in IE8? I’m using the home page as a squeeze page, but want everyone to see posts should they want to see them. And yes, it does work in Compat mode of IE8, but I can’t count on visitors knowing about that mode.

Thanks.

Posted on the 6th of October, 2009 at 6:30 pm.

I can’t think of any fixes I wrote for it. Generally speaking, I don’t support any version of Internet Explorer, so it’s sort of a fluke that it works in IE7 (I don’t know about IE6, I think I just went ‘fuck it’ after a while and decided that Opera, Firefox, and Safari were the best to support).

I’m not entirely sure how recent posts or tag cloud work, so you may have to re-implement whatever they are (assuming they’re widgets, which are only vaguely supported because the Wordpress people think it should be a requirement). Not really difficult, documentation is all there for the widget/sidebar stuff.

Posted on the 28th of October, 2009 at 8:29 am.

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