The other day I was taking a look at the various themes on the RevolutionTwo web site when my wife saw the demo of the Revolution Album theme and declared that she wanted it for TheFarlands.Net. She was never as happy with the WordPress.Fun theme as I was and wanted something a little more elegant. The Revolution Album theme fits the bill nicely and I didn’t have to do very much to “customize” it.

The first order of business was getting the majority of the existing posts up to snuff. The theme requires the use of custom fields and the ‘more’ function, so I had a lot of post editing to do before the theme would like right. The developers were kind enough to include blank logo images so adding your own logo is a snap. I made it a point to create a new master PSD file with all of the color schemes and a couple of font choices so that I can make changes fairly rapidly. Eventually, I’ll try my hand at creating some new schemes, but for now the blue suits us fine.

Hats off to Brian Gardner and the crew at RevolutionTwo for another fine theme.

TheFarlands.Net is the personal weblog of Donald and Christy Farland.  The site was created to help share stories, photos, and stay in touch with family and friends all over the world.

The site is based on the popular WordPress publishing system and features a high quality theme called “WordPress.Fun” made possible by the folks at Smashing Magazine.  I made some minor modifications to the site design to improve search rankings, added Google AdSense code blocks and implemented a flash based photo gallery.