As a bonus this means faster page loads and smaller bandwidth on my web host. I also just like the simplicity of the new theme, it gives far more priority to the text which after all is what a blog is all about.

After some searching I found the White as Milk theme which then led me to Skimmed Milk, my current theme.

I use a XHTML 1.1 Doctype on my main site so I decided to try the same with my blog. It was actually surprisingly easy to do (including serving the page as Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml) and just required some minor edits of the functions.php file in the theme folder.

For my own sake I like the fact that in Mozilla browsers pages completely break if you send invalid markup using this content type, at least they are easy to notice and fix. I’m also so used to writing pages that conform to a XHTML 1.1 Doctype that most of my pages validate first time.