I do not answer theme questions anymore whatsoever, please go to my theme page for more information. Any other comments welcome though :) I’m sorry if I don’t get back to you, but please know that I read and appreciate every message.

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Themes

Where can I find your themes?
All the new ones are here, all the old ones are gone. check here for more info.

Will you help me with my theme?
I stopped answering questions about themes a year ago October because I got dozens a day expecting me to basically rewrite their theme to suit them. I do not have the time for that. If you are having a good play with some interesting css or jquery though I might be swayed. But the rules are if you want something different learn how to change it (that’s how all theme makers get into themeing).

Will you tell me which of your themes ~~~ is using?
Yes, because they’re so customisable it can be hard to identify which one. Don’t be anonymous though.

How do I put external links in the list of the sidebar in your theme Belle? or in your other themes?
This is very easy to do; go to customise > pages > new page change the type to redirect and then show a link to this page.

Whose themes do you recommend?
I’m actually going to answer this by saying what themes I don’t recommend, because beyond that it’s just personal taste. Your theme should have a variety of things easily accessible- a link to the post’s permalink page, the source of the content and the ability to tell whether something has been reblogged or not. Make sure it isn’t stupid, like the font size and so it’s easy to see your links. I also disapprove of themes that have appearance options like custom link #1; this is badly coded. And to be completeley honest I don’t like these four makers because they’re badly coded and too many people use them (it’s just annoying when I go on someone’s blog with one of these themes because they’re either not as functional or not nice to look at or just have really tiny font or something else stupid), just look at their theme sites and maybe you’ll understand what I mean.

Who do you get theme inspiration from?
Nowadays ideas just kind of pop into my head - I have loads and loads of notebooks and three of them are for web design; two are just random scribbles, progress and lists but the last one is ultra special and for fixed themes (A6 Moleskine squared reporter), as in designs that I’ve thought through and want to make and have made little diagrams for and will come to build some day. Right now there are like a dozen unmade themes in there. Here’s the process- think of something nobody’s done before or that there’s a gap in the market for, think of cool ways to go about evoking this, reseach, try it out, experiment, achieve.

I’ve seen someone with a theme that is yours but definitely not on your theme site, how do I get it?
I’ve made dozens of themes that you can’t get to. They’re old and outdated but if liked a lot I’ll reinvent them for my theme site. I have plans to remake a few of them so keep your fingers crossed. Also check my theme faqs for more info.

How do you feel about themers copying you? (asked by self o’course)
This is just a place for me to go on about how I’ve peaked. Did you know that I was one of the first people to make live previews outside of the theme garden? I was the first independent theme maker to implement jquery in my themes, and css transitions and google fonts? (Also when did it using this cursor for ‘click for some reveal’ become normal? I totally started that /bitter) (and you know when photos are faded out and then you hover over them and they fade in? I actually started that too (correct me if I’m wrong but June 2010 I put it on my theme, someone asked for the code and then it became a sort of thing) /narcissism) I directly attribute almost all the advancements in tumblr themeing to Parti, Gabrielle Wee, Lucas, Kiyla and myself. So to an extent, everyone owes someone something and very few people are truly original. I just really hate when people directly copy my code or my techniques.

I have more questions about your themeeeesss?
Go here for more info.for my theme faq page, and if it’s one of my new themes go to its page on the minisite and you can ask questions there.

Tumblr

When did you start on tumblr?
I started posing regularly September 2009.

Will you promote me?
No.

How many people do you follow?
Right now, 17/10/2011, I follow 676.

That’s a lot! Why don’t you follow me?
Inside that 676 about half are either about drarry, klaine, cupcakes or web design. So really I don’t follow that many people. But my dash can be a bit slow sometimes to message me if you think I’d like you (the sad thing is though that the people I’d really like would never message me and demand I check out their blawgue)

What makes you follow people? (i.e. how do I get you to follow me)
Post original content (as in from peoples’ fickr streams not favourites, that’s basically like stealing posts), not too much personal stuff, a theme that is clear and shows if posts have been reblogged and their source. Tall order right?

How many followers do you have?
An incredible amount (that wasn’t me being cocky, it was more awe-struck). 45k. I’m not shy about it I just know that some people get annoyed with me answering questions about it.

What other tumblrs do you have?
I have a dark tumblr called willout that I barely ever post on, a harry potter tumblr called whorecrux, one of things I’d like to do that I barely ever post on, I share fogsandhouses with Lucas that we barely ever post on, a personal tumblr that I post on rather often and experimentalist that I set up to catch the filtered posts from here but actually is just sporadic.

Personal

How old are you?
18 since July 15th

Where do you live?
Student halls in London

Do you have a boyfriend?
No. I’m not secure / bothered enough to be sociable this year.

You say you have an obsessive personality, what are you obsessed with?
I get really caught up in ideologies and when I have an idea I want to carry out I can’t stop until I have. I just go overboard on everything I like. Here’s a short list of my current obsessions organised by type - clementines (at least a bag a day), earl grey tea (+6 cups a day), Drarry Starkid -> Darren Criss -> Klaine thus reading copious amounts of fanfiction, Derren Brown (mentalism is interesting ok?), Lord of the Rings and tbh all Tolkein legendarium. I get spurts of tvshow love, and when I find a new show I have to watch it all; like I discovered Lost last year after a rediscovery of lotr and Dom Monaghan, anyway I watched the whole thing in a month and then rewatched it a year later in 2 weeks. That lead me to Ian Somerhalder and TVD. My obsessive spurts just make me really knowledgeable about odd people; most of the HP cast; especially David Thewlis and Tom Felton and Emma Watson and Alan Rickman. Die hard Formula One fan esp. Button and Coulthard (oh and on that note I had a spurt of Bruce Willis). I also have the same thing with books- currently really enjoying Bret Easton Ellis’ entire bibliography. I get passionate about things really easily.

Can I have your email?
Yeah! Here. If you want to offer me a job or send me money that’s cool too. Actually if you want to send money go here.

Can I have your facebook?
No, sorry, I’m only on fb with people I know in real life. So I seldom go on. On second thought, if I follow you post yours in my ask and I’ll add you.

Can I add your on [last.fm/flickr/blogsot/lj/…]?
Sure :)

What networks are you on?
I’m on blogspot
I’m on flickr
I’m on twitter
I’m on last.fm

Plans for the future / what do you do with your life now?
I’m at Central Saint Martins Art College in London for a foundation degree (one year course); I’m applying for a Jewellery Design BA at CSM and London Met, so wish me luck! Interviews start in a week! But lol no I should just be paid to sit on the computer all day woo

updated 27/01/2012