ubiquitous super mario theme

tetris theme

zelda theme

and a little more… range

drzy has a new theme, as you’ve probably already noticed. I adopted the DarkMambo theme by rkcorp. It is very clean and I’ve gone back to a dark theme for the site. Very dark. Reasons for the change? My old theme was great but based on Wordpress code way prior to Wordpress 1.5. This made me have to hack it and hack it to get it to work properly or to use new features. This resulted in a cluster of unwieldy code. The choice came to be: either build a new theme from scratch, or adopt a new one.

When I first started using Wordpress, the theme choices were pretty minimal. I just chose one with all the features I wanted and adapted it to my liking. (The old theme was based off Andreas, which was based off a couple others.) I was set on making my own theme this time, but gave a look at the galleries of themes for some ideas. To my surprise the theme community has exploded, and there were tons that I tried out and liked. DarkMambo was among the best. I love its clean lines and form. It is rather “web 2.0″, but not overbearingly so.

So, over the next few weeks I will be tweaking the theme to work with everything drzy-ish. It was somewhat incomplete, but I have filled in things like a 404 page and a proper archive listing template, among other things.

Thanks to rkcorp for coding this little gem. He has some other great themes on his site that I also considered, so take a look. or peruse the very large collection at the official Wordpress theme gallery.

Koji Kondo, who did the original music on games such as Super Mario Bros., played a little concert at the just-ended GDC. Here’s him warming up before the show, with a song you might just recognize: