Out goes one theme and in comes another. I like changing themes once in a while, give the blog a fresh look. And besides, I almost forgot to mention but Labnotes is just past its 1st birthday (hurray!), so consider it a birthday present.
This time, the theme is based on the excellent Simpla theme by Phu. It’s clean, simple and elegant.
Not only does it look good, but the code itself is simple and elegant, a pleasure to work with. Since I can’t just use a theme without tweaking it.
So, I went and added hAtom support. Didn’t take long, hAtom is much easier than writing RSS/Atom feeds. Just change a few class names, add a couple of spans and abbr tags. No XMLs to worry about, no namespaces, no content encoding (good luck with that). Your blog is your feed, there’s only one file to worry about.
I’m still on the fence about hAtom. I realize most people are too lazy to do their styling right, so getting the code to produce a correct feed seems easier. But it could change if there were some other obvious benefits to getting your HTML semantically rich and well structured.
Like, for example, using the wonderful WordPress Widgets. If your sidebar is a proper list instead of a kludge, you can add these Widgets with one line of code, or mix them with your own. It literally took one line of code.
And I also added MicroID. A lot of semantics in just a few hours. The beauty of Microformats.
Phu