Over the past few weeks, I made my first Tumblr theme. It was an experiment in two ways:
- It was the first time I used HTML5 in production.
- It was also the first time I used the Tumblr theme language.
I’m used to WordPress and learning how Tumblr does it provided a good segway into learning ExpressionEngine, my next challenge.
HTML5
HTML5 has been an absolute pleasure to use. It’s the first HTML spec that has made complete sense to me. The addition of a few new tags (<header>, <nav>, <time>, etc) make my markup more semantic and useful to both humans and search engine robots. Not to mention the new doctype – <!doctype html> – is as simple as it will ever get.
Using HTML5 has been so great that I will be developing in that language from now on, mostly thanks to Modernizr for backwards compatibility.
Letterpress
Letterpress is the Tumblr theme I designed and coded. It was inspired by a whole array of letterpress prints, but most of all Dan Cederholm’s business card. Over 500 people are using it so far and it is growing steadily at about 30 more a day. That is a modestly popular theme by Tumblr’s standards, but I’m happy with it as my debut effort.
Let me know what you think of it. See it action on my Tumblr blog.
I love your sites design and its amazingly simple and just awesome, and I am using your tumblr theme , and as you are a designer , If you can create your sites theme for blogger platform it will be wonderful …