I finally, finally got the ball rolling on what will be my theme and theme structure for this site! I am so excited about this. After having read so many posts about templates, CSS, OOCSS, SaSS, PHP and just about any random acronym you can possibly think of I finally have a name for the theme and the look.

The name is actually inspired, of course, by Flamenco. I am calling the theme: Soleá. The name is a the type of compás, or time signature that is in one of two forms. 3/4 and 6/8 time is a simple way of putting it but there is more to it. It doesn’t really follow the basic musical pattern but I’ll let you research that on your own if you want to really learn more about Flamenco music.

I am slowly learning how to work with TortoiseSVN as my local version control and will try to gain more knowledge with github with this theme as time progresses. I know that my second theme will be a lot easier to work with once I get the hang of my workflow and work area.

Photoshop is a great tool and I love using it. Notepad++ and I have been getting along more and more and Chrome has been very dear to me in this learning process. Forums and web articles I have read are great and taught me not only new techniques but also helped improve my way of thinking about programming.

The theme is a simple theme with very few images to cut load times. The colors I have chosen are black, a dark blue, a grey tone, and blue tone as an accent and for emphasis for certain elements like links and some headers.

The only images I chose to use are for the header and maybe a divider for the bottom of the article when being viewed as a list of and not a single view. The one view that will be a little tricky to finagle will be getting the gallery the way I want.

There are so many ideas that I want to use for the gallery format postings but I think I may just go ahead and implement a simple one. Click on an image and it takes you to the single image page and not having a modal window with the gallery of images; that version I’ll try to implement for the next theme or maybe as an update.

The reason I am wanting to release said theme is because I want to learn more about web development and I hope to share my learnings with the community as well as others. So in the next three, or four weeks, please don’t be alarmed if I start posting three things in one day about code. It will serve as a way for me to organize my thoughts and ideas as well as sharing my pains with the world and hopefully some people gain some insight how to code for their own projects down the road.