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I started the redesign of my website with a default install of Wordpress 2.1 and Derek Punsalan's Widgetized October Special WordPress theme. His theme can be downloaded here:

http://5thirtyone.com/archives/703 ^{link »}

The default theme had a search link here, with the box in the footer. I replaced the text with a custom search box from a Google Coop search which searches all my websites. While some people may just wish to search this site, I think it more likely that people remember something I wrote but not where I wrote it. ^{link »}

I wanted a menu that would expand and collapse depending on where people were in the site. I ended up using the "folding paged widget" which met my needs:

http://navyroad.com/wordpress-plugins/nrs-folding-pages-widget/ ^{link »}

The photos were made with the "photo drop" dashboard widget for OS X:

http://www.dropping.at/

The hover-effect which highlights the image when the mouse is over it was made with CSS following the instructions on this page:

http://www.cssdrive.com/index.php/examples/exampleitem/highlight_image_opacity/ ^{link »}

The biggest modification I had to make to the theme was to add a third sidebar. This was actually easier than I thought, requiring simply changing the number of sidebars from 2 to 3 in functions.php. More complex was tweaking the CSS so that the widgets added to this sidebar looked good (as well as modifying the various default templates to remove the blog archives stuff that was initially in this location.) ^{link »}

Thanks to Alex King for his Twitter plugin for wordpress:

http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress ^{link »}

Thanks to Ben Coleman for the Flickr widget I used here:

http://www.bencoleman.co.uk/flickr-widget-plugin-for-your-wordpress-sidebar/ ^{link »}

My blog's feed is pulled using the KB Advanced RSS widget:

http://adambrown.info/b/widgets/kb-advanced-rss/ ^{link »}

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