This time for my father’s website… bluesnoopy.com I had downloaded a theme which I used on my website when I first started to blog called ‘Simply-Blue’ (I can’t find a link to the authors home page as it wasn’t listed in the original template).  My father really liked the look of it, however, for some reason it wouldn’t support the NextGEN Gallery lightbox effect that he wanted so much.

So about a month ago I found this great barebone template called ‘Starkers‘ which is basically the wordpress default theme with ALL css div elements removed from it, which give you a great base platform for developing themes from.  You just need to grab the latest version of the comments.php from the default themes so it will support gravitars which was implemented after Starkers was created.

I migrated the Simply Blue theme in to it and it looks great and now his Next Gen Gallery works and IMHO looks even better in this theme than the old theme which he was using.