For The Blog of Rugrats.

What do you think? Not too shabby I hope. It took me a day or two to complete the whole thing. My biggest challenge was to finish the theme while my 1-year old son attempts to climb on to the table and the computer trying to get his piece of the action.

I’ll be making the Rugrats theme available for public use, as soon as I get a few kinks out of the theme. The CSS part of it isn’t perfect, as the footer gets cut off by the sidebar when a page has a short post in it. Design-wise, though, I’m pretty happy with my first time effort.

If you aspire to create your own theme, I advise you to not only read the recommended tutorials I mentioned previously, but also to use the Classic theme that comes pre-installed with your WordPress blog. Those are great starts for beginners, even for those without any programming knowledge.

Updated 29/Jan/2008: The Rugrats theme can now be downloaded here.

After reading the comments from Ben and PapaJoneh concerning whether or not I should get a new domain for my baby blog, I’ve decided on getting a new domain at BlogOfRugrats.com. Now it’s just a matter of creating a customised theme which I plan to build from scratch. To do so, I’m currently reading the WordPress theme tutorial at WPDesigner.com as well as a little bit of referencing from NeedForContent.com.

The first couple of months may be easy for me in terms of adding content to the Blog of Rugrats, as I plan to copy-and-paste over the content from the old blog in Friendster once every few weeks. I’m still concerned with putting my children’s photos online, although I plan to continue making The Blog of Rugrats as a mix of posts and photoblog. Maybe there’s a WordPress plugin out there somewhere that can limit viewing of uploaded photos to a select few, while still displaying the posts that come with it.

If you have any suggestions as to how I can solve this dilemma, I’d appreciate some feedback.