I’ll probably put up another post about widgets and plugins. I’ve added the Meta widget for this theme as well as the search widget.

In the meantime, you can see the plugins I’m using at my “This Server” page. The page needs some work; I need to adjust the CSS so the plugins list is more readable/attractive.

I’ve been using the W3C validator but when I tried validrome.org it came up with a couple of errors. Interesting! I’ll look into that. The validation is more for my learning. Until this theme all my posts and pages validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

another questions/requests (maybe for the next posts):
• wp plugins on your blog
• w3c markup validator and validome.org

and nice contribution on wp forum

Fluid themes are good since they usually have the sidebar set to a fixed width but let the post area adjust. Such as with the theme your blog uses. I had thought of modifying the Classic WordPress theme but my CSS is horrible.

I wanted to go with something less flashy but not too plain. I was reading http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/ and noticed the theme was plain but looked customizable. Plain == more readable and less distracting.

Also the theme I am using now is GPL’ed. Sadish’s FastTrack theme was perfect and I left in the sponsored link since it was a condition of it’s use. Lucian’s theme lets me removed it if I want to.

I won’t remove it; Lucian should be encouraged to do more great work. But it’s nice that the author permits customization like that.