SEO Fort Lauderdale » Neo Hacked WP Theme

Okay, I recently got a little creative and decided to build a WordPress theme for my fledgling SEO Fort Lauderdale Blog ... I'm calling it Neo Hacked.

I got the initial idea to take a shot a customizing my own theme after I was researching an SEO article on the Google PageRank Algorithm by Ian Rogers.

Besides having a brain that will probably all the rage for the medial community once he dies ... Ian has a pretty good taste in design too ... I however, do not have the greatest taste in design ... and I'd be lucky to pass on the four and a half bucks worth of my dead minerals to the benefit of my family.

So, I attempted to develop a Hack out of the original theme that Ian used ... connections 1.0 ...  However, all I managed to do is log about 30 hours of coding practice only to realize that the theme was way too outdated to use as a base for the WordPress platform has sophisticated quite a bit since the initial release of the connections theme ... Take One = Scraped.

Except for the green, I really liked the look and feel of connections, but I needed a more powerful template to work with ... so, I tried to use a couple of Pearson's chops ... The second shot went up with the Cutline theme ... but that didn't work out too well either ... Then I tried to build out the theme with the SandBox ... But, that didn't work out either ... It could have but I honestly didn't want to invest the time that it would take to build an entirely original theme ... I'm a lazy programmer.

End Result? I used the Neo Classical theme as the base template ... and ripped out the CSS and layout styles that were native to connections ... The whole process took me about a week to get right ... but I am happy with it.