A bit of a change
This entry was posted on April 28, 2008
I’ve always been a fan of major re-vamps, and I’m constantly trying to improve my site. I’ve spent the last few weeks agonising over this layout, trying to refine it as much as possible. I’m pretty pleased with how it has turned out. Loading times should be fairly low due to the fact that it’s image-free (I really wanted to experiment with CSS).
You should notice a few major changes already on the site. My footer is now more useful than it was before, and I have a magically-changing sidebar for each page (thanks to a shed load of code, and Melissa’s tutorial).
The layout is good to go now (as far as I can tell) - all that remains is to start adding new content!
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Is she isn’t she?
This entry was posted on April 1, 2008
Today I was originally going to write about how I’m working on a narrower layout so everything will look nicer on a mobile phone screen. I was going to write about taking up PPP. After all, it could be a great source of income, and I don’t mind blogging about something I care about a lot. I was also going to write about my fresh-out-of-the-box CMS of sorts. It has been a while coming, but now it’s finally ready to use. It’s not perfect, but it’s as secure as I can make it.
But then I thought - if I wrote about all of that today, on April 1st, what’s to stop people thinking this was an April Fool’s joke? I want to be taken seriously, and so blogging about all the soon-to-be-implemented changes might make people think I’m joking.
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Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5
This entry was posted on March 29, 2008
I’ve just upgraded to the newest version of Wordpress. It’s all part of my master plan to improve my site. Actually, it’s because I’m trying to keep up to date. I never upgraded to the previous version of Wordpress, and seeing as 2.5 is a big change (at least in the back end) I thought I should do the upgrade now.
Nothing major seems to have broken yet, an I’m optimistic that things will stay that way. The one plugin I was using that doesn’t work is the Livejournal Crossposter. This causes something called a “fatal error” which probably isn’t as scary as it sounds.
One thing I don’t like though is the new admin panel. In fact, right now I’d go so far as to say I’d hate it. Whilst I am open-minded and am normally okay with change, this time I don’t like it. I miss all the Georgia from the old admin panel, and I don’t like all the pale colours in the new one.
However, I have found a solution! With the help of netdestroyer, I have flooded my admin panel. All is well now, so I’m off to bed before I break anything, and hopefully my site will still be in one piece in the morning.
