Yea, the first theme was a shoddy modification work based on the Kubrick theme. I didn’t know colours and typography very well back then, so do forgive me for using Kristen ITC and a shade of sickening lime green in the older themes (they were so hideous that I didn’t even bother counting them as one of the WP themes I’ve crafted thus far).

We’ve both come a long way, Ember! So many years tumbling in the blogosphere and I’m surprised that both of us are still holding up well. Your designs have got exponentially better over the past five years — here’s a big pat for you in the back. Really love your work, so keep it up!

But that doesn’t mean I want you to retire this theme and create a new one. This one is too lovely for me to let go!

Have a great week!

Ah, so even you used Kubrick back then! Well Kubrick certainly drew a lot of us into ‘prowling through its code’ trying to customise it no doubt — giving birth to a lot of self-taught designers out there (me included!) =D You’ve come a long way too, Teddy!

As for spelling WP, I realised how people spell them both ways too! I know ‘WordPress’ is the correct spelling but more often than not I just get too lazy to capitalise the ‘P’, haha. But then if it’s an entry mostly on WordPress then I’d be a little more serious with the ‘P’, heh. =P

It’s indeed big news that WP is retiring the Kubrick theme. It was one of the first theme who I spent countless hours prowling through the code (like how we can magically adjust hues and colours of the header image).

Anyway, happy 2010 to you (and to Danbo).

p/s: And you’re one of the few bloggers out there whom I know spells WP as “WordPress” and not “Wordpress”.

It is indeed amazing. =) I hadn’t thought much about Kubrick being such a game-changer for the web. I mean, it was for me personally, but I wasn’t aware of its impact on the whole blogosphere in general back in 2005. Until I read Tina Daunt’s article. Interesting.