Ginseng Coffee thinks it does alternating styles for each comment in a string, but it looks like the author fucked up the logic. The author is also using a table to format the comments, which I think is kinda poop.

I doubt now that I’m gonna do much with this theme except let it be “pretty enough for now” and then list all the thing I dislike and not do any of them while I’m working on my own..

Ginseng Coffee lacks a PHP call to wp_footer(), so my Wordpress.com-based stats went tits-up for the last 6 days until I figured out what was wrong.

Tony, I’d actually noticed the text box craziness and hated on it, but I probably won’t fix it in this theme.

I’m gonna try to swap the banners, improve some font colors, and maybe change the “owner” comments style today. I was insanely busy over the weekend (almost didn’t get to TANcast), but I’ll try to set some time aside at some point to pretty this up somewhat.

Go back to the way it was before! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh change!!!!

Being a person that digs earth tones, I do like the inclusion of color into the site, as opposed to the stark white background. However, as Andy has already pointed out, it does make some of the topics and font colors hard to read.

Step in the right direction, though! Not just resting on your laurels.

Oh, and interesting…when I reach the bottom of the text box, I’m now typing half in, half out of it.

If it helps, I am using Firefox…whatever the newest version is.

* The post count numbers in the left sidebar are barely readable.
* The hyperlinks in posts are not obvious enough.
* The comment entry form uses a hack of layering the input fields over JPG images (and why not at least use PNG, if you you are gonna do that?) to make the form areas all rounded. The problem is that this fixed-size image does not actually completely contain the text entry area on Firefox, so long comments (like this one) run off the tan area onto the brown and the scrollbar looks like shit. It’s like having a very nice custom suit tailored, but using measurements from someone else.
* On the same subject, the nifty “highlight border” around the submit button jumps around in Firefox.
* I need to put the style changes that mark comments left by Noah, Tim, and I in a slightly different color back in (because I like to feel special).
* Replace the banner shape (Noah IMed me and called it a “goatse”, but if you don’t know what that means DO NOT TRY TO FIND OUT!!!) with something more “us” that Tim made.

This is all a learning experience for me, and everything I encounter in themes I try out that rocks or sucks gives me a more concrete plan for the final design.

Little known fact, I got into Weezer because of a girl. Sadly I never got to “pee in her butt” as the kids say.

Whoa. Just… whoa.