{"id":1504,"date":"2009-01-01T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2009-01-08T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:40:20","slug":"happy-new-year-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, from all my heart I wish you a Happy New Year 2009. I wish that the New Year will bring hapiness in your family and that all your dreams come true.<\/p>\n<p>And as a treat for my blog readers,\u00a0this new year I have updated my theme to a new WordPress Windows Vista Style Areo Glass Theme.<\/p>\n<p>Features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Striking Glass-style design\n<ul>\n<li>Drop Shadows<\/li>\n<li>Transparency<\/li>\n<li>Taskbar-style pages list<\/li>\n<li>Glowing Options Orb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Seven user selectable sub-themes\n<ul>\n<li>Void, Life, Earth, Wind, Water, Fire and Lightweight<\/li>\n<li>Cookie saves user\u2019s preference for 30 days<\/li>\n<li>Default Theme is admin selectable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Easy Navigation\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cTaskbar Preview\u201d style menus when you hover over page buttons &#8211; makes finding pages a snap!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Cross Browser Functionality\n<ul>\n<li>IE6, IE7, FF2\/3, Safari 1-3, Chrome<\/li>\n<li>NOTE: IE6 Functionality is just that, functional. It doesn\u2019t look pretty and at least one issue causes the screen to want to \u201cscroll forever\u201d, however it is visible and usable. These issues may be corrected in a future release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Widget Ready\n<ul>\n<li>Think: Sidebar \u201cGadgets\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Themed Widgets: Each widget is graphically themed in an attractive way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Convenient Options Menu\n<ul>\n<li>Meta functions neatly tucked away. Makes sure your content is front and center.<\/li>\n<li>New Post and New Page buttons right on the Options menu \u2013 saves time!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Customizable user picture\n<ul>\n<li>Uses the \u201cCustom Image Header\u201d feature of WordPress to allow the blog owner to change the user picture to his\/her heart\u2019s content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gravatar-enabled.\n<ul>\n<li>Subscribers see themselves on the Options Menu and in posts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Minutiae\n<ul>\n<li>Graphic work was done in Paint Shop Pro 8. I know it\u2019s crufty and old, but Adobe software just costs too damn much.<\/li>\n<li>It looks best if you have the Segoe UI font installed, but works with number of other default Windows, Mac and Linux fonts, so it should look okay in any situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you enjoy my blogs new windows vista areo glass look\u00a0and agree that the theme I have selected is well suited for this blog! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/12\/017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Happy New Year 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/12\/017_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, from all my heart I wish you a Happy New Year 2009. I wish that the New Year will bring hapiness in your family and that all your dreams come true. And as a treat for my blog readers,\u00a0this new year I have updated my theme to a new WordPress Windows Vista Style Areo Glass Theme. 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