So I have been wanting to do a blog theme update for a long time now, but I was using a wide theme that allowed me to use images 500 wide and larger without affecting the sidebar. This was causing an issue with choosing a new theme, as most will allow for 425 wide or slightly bigger without affecting the sidebar.

Needless to say I could not find one, and had almost given up and just lived with what I had, after all it was not horrible, just not what I wanted. Well Disqus, in an indirect way convinced me to change my theme. After seeing a lot of people (namely jeffisageek & tw3nty3ight) mention it lately I have been wanting to get it added, however it would not work well with the theme I had, go figure, but at least it forced me to make a switch.

After a good deal of searching I decided to go with this theme (take some time and check it out), which is called “Illacrimo” and it was courtesy of Design Disease.

So I added the theme, got the Disqus comment system set up, updated my sidebar and all those goodies, and then set out to go back through old posts and begin the challenge of resizing images. Sucks, but I am almost all of the way through, the rest will have to wait till later tonight as I have some real work to do now.

Overall I am happy that I made the move, I hope the theme looks good, I like it. Now I also realized one other important item, I need to do more blogging here and get some regular content coming. I also need to get some more commenters so I can fully test and use really Disqus, but with more posts I suppose more comments will come in time.