Blog theme – again

I mentioned in an earlier post at the turn of the year that I was changing the theme – or appearance – of the Our Trike blog and for several months up until just recently I was using a bright green theme called Apples.

Well, it seems there was something not quite right about Apples. It appears that the designer had included some hidden code linking to another web site and a few days ago, because that site had gone down, it prevented Apples from loading. So anyone visiting Our Trike would find that the progress bar in the bottom right of their browser would stop half way and Our Trike would never actually come up.

So obviously I had to do something about it. I changed very quickly to another theme that worked but as it was one that I’d previously rejected, I didn’t want to stay with it. Since then I’ve installed and tried over twenty different ones. Some I just didn’t like but several that I did like either didn’t have features that I wanted or just didn’t work as they were supposed to.   😕

I installed a theme called Refresh which I liked better than any that I’d seen, including Apples. But dang me, there was something funny about some of the headings that were coming out too big and too dark. So I had to discard it and try something else that I wasn’t really happy with. But I just couldn’t let it drop. I thought I’d try to find Refresh on a different download site, which I did. I installed it and for some weird reason the layout was all over the place, so I deactivated it yet again. But while I was messing around trying to adapt the colours of another theme, I happened to activate Refresh again, and this time it was perfect. And now you see it!  😀

It just goes to show – persistence pays off in the end – and you must never take second best if you don’t really like it. A good lesson for everyone, I think. 😉