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I routinely look through the web for new themes that I might incorporate on one of my blogs.  I have pretty definite ideas about layout and functions they need to have, although more and more, if it’s reasonably close on those I can tweak the back end to perform like I want it to.

For me, one of the big attractions of a theme seems to be visual.

I can’t tell you the number of themes I’ve downloaded and installed only to go “ick – not me” and discard it. And then there are the ones that I’ve desperately tried to alter the graphics to make the theme more appealing to still go “EWWW! not working” and discard it. Is this something you go through, too? I would hate to think I’m the only theme-trier-on-er in the blogosphere!

I’ll admit that the graphics on this theme were not my first choice. They are in the “grunge” style which really isn’t me. I changed many of them to suit me, although the grunge flavor is still present to some extent.

Despite being something I don’t associate with the me I want to project to the world, there was something about this theme’s graphics that caught my eye and piqued my interest. That I’ve been able to make the tweaks and twitches to make it work for me is probably just pure dumb luck. But work it has and for longer than any other in the nearly 3 year history of this site!

I suppose since the theme author isn’t making an efforts to keep the theme compatible with new versions of WP, I need to begin searching for a new theme. And I’ll confess to looking in a rather desultory way, but so far haven’t even found one to try on.

If you come across any really cool themes, drop me a line — OK?