In 2006 I re­pub­lished an es­say about the Lord Of The Rings and sysad­min­s. It's as painful as it sound­s.

You can read it here

This is a short sto­ry, in span­ish, so if you want to read it, click here

I just switched this blog to a new Niko­la the­me, that I am call­ing Read­able. Be­cause it tries to be read­able. It's loose­ly based on the looks of a WP theme called doc, but it shares no code.

If you are see­ing this through a plan­et, this is how it look­s:

Tato had to­day his first day at foot­ball school. The oth­er day he was cry­ing be­cause all his friends went there and he did­n't, so, what the heck, he goes now too.

He does­n't have too much of a clue yet, but he tries hard ;-)

One of the eas­i­est ways to per­son­al­ize how your site looks is us­ing col­or and ty­pog­ra­phy. While Niko­la's "site" theme is in­tend­ed to be rather bland and neu­tral, it does­n't have to be that way, and it's easy to change.

To do these changes, you don't even need to know any CSS, HTM­L, or pro­gram­ming!

Here's the trick: Niko­la is us­ing Twit­ter Boot­strap to han­dle its styling. And they pro­vide a handy web form to cre­ate a cus­tom­ized ver­sion, just for you, at their cus­tom­ize page.

So, if you want au­vergine nav­i­ga­tion bars and av­o­ca­do back­ground­s, with couri­er fonts all over the place, that's where you do it. Just change the val­ue in the right vari­able to what­ev­er col­or you wan­t.

Once you have your bootstrap.zip, go to your site's folder, and create themes/mytheme/assets and unzip it in there, so that you have themes/mytheme/assets/css, themes/mytheme/assets/js, etc.

Create a file called themes/mytheme/parent containing the word site.

Then edit your dodo.py (or conf.py if you are using the git master) and change the THEME option "mytheme".

Re­build your site, and voilá, all your cus­tomiza­tions are now in place.

This aw­ful­ness, for ex­am­ple, was done by set­ting just three vari­ables (body­Back­ground, text­Col­or, and sans­Font­fam­i­ly):