OK, I give up. I said I was going to create my own custom theme, and made some good progress on it, but it is eating up too much of my family time. In fact, most of my online activities tend to take me offline with my family and that is not what I want. So I decided to just tweak an existing (and elegant) theme that someone else did, and I am happy with the result.
I have also added a gallery to this website (instead of sending you to a different place), and I encourage you to check it out.
No more change. At least for a while.