transmothraI’m working on a project for a friend right now involving WordPress, which has got me excited enough to go ahead and overhaul this site once again.
So i will FINALLY be upgrading my WP installation and fixing my ACTUAL theme once and for all! I hope to have this completed by the end of the summer.
I promise to make it a whole lot cleaner, too, in layout if not in language.
That is all.
Look out for my B.U.T.T.! I’ve just finished uploading some tweaks to make the Big Urgent Wish theme a little nicer. Please, as always, wear your helmets, and let me know if anything falls on your head. I could always use a good laugh.
I hope to have a sanitized version available soon.
The B.U.G. hunt is on! See if you can find all the problems with my new layout… I’ve already identified the ugly 3rd-tier dropdown menu thing on the navbar at the top, but I haven’t had much time yet to test everything out. fixed Later tonight I’ll tweak it and try to get it to behave itself a little better. Please post your comments here (be sure to include your OS/browser). And thanks!
(Things are bound to be a little on the messy side for a few days while I convert this thing over to the new theme.)
EDIT: Yikes! Single posts & pages are also totally unstyled! fixed
This is the color chart I made for orchestrating and managing the background images/colors when using both a style switcher and a browser sniffer to determine which background, exactly, to display for each area of the page. You might even find it useful for your own layouts. The key is below.
Note that the header isn’t really used, and that the content and sidebars (sometimes), and the drop-downs, post meta-data, and my-own-comments boxes (always) use the same background CSS (once for each subtheme).
In all there are 6 × 3 = 18 different CSS inserts for what ended up being one of 4 types of user agents (1. browsers that cannot handle PNG transparency, 2. browsers that can and receive special message A, 3. browsers that can and receive special message B, and 4) all other user agents).
So, yeah, you can tell that this is becoming a bit of a logistical nightmare for me! Nevertheless, I’m pretty confident that once I’ve got the thing done, it’ll be easy to extend.
I’m trying to make the learning curve for anyone else as shallow as I can. Here’s how it breaks down for anyone wishing to add their own subtheme:
styles.incsniffer.inc
header.php so that cookies don’t retain old style names (there must be an easier way to do this; maybe someone will come along and improve this step so it’s automated; nevertheless, it currently only requires inserting the style names into two lines of existing code, towards the top of the page)Not too terribly bad, I think, all things considered.
Key:
| (A) | header |
| E | navbar |
| B (+C+D) | content |
| (C+D) | sidebar |
| F+G+H+I | contrast |
| J | comment1 |
| K | comment2 (alternating) |
I’ve just finished posting the latest tutorial: HTML Beginner’s Course pt 1. This tutorial covers basic HTML formatting and some common tags. Nothing intensive here, just a crash course in what it is and what it does, with a little bit of the fundamentals. Topics to be covered later include lists, images, links, tables, and CSS.
Get your feet wet now, we’ll be doing some fun diving soon enough! There’s even an RSS feed to the tutorials pages, so you can keep up with the latest tute’s.
Cleaned up a little bit, tweaked out the CSS, and created some image galleries.
Music page updated slightly with some old songs, and an early, super-rough mix of the one i’m finishing right now.
Finally! My online portfolio is nearly finished… The only thing left to do now is to acquire the main files from my most recent project and remove all proprietary informations.
I thought i’d NEVER get that shit done. That last one was a bitch to nail down – it turned out that it made much better sense to lose the damn b2evolution blog and just write in static content.
Well, it’s been taking forever, but finally!, my portfolio is online and pretty much more or less all (well, most) of those old dead sites are recreated and re-animated and essentially living again, albeit with synthetic blood this time around. Don’t look them too closely in the eyes, as there is no more soul in them as there is in an idiot, slack-jawed goldfish.
It’s been quite a learning experience… in fact, it really is amazing that i got away with such junk HTML in some of those sites. Actually, on the most prominent website i ever did, i actually used double-quotes within inline CSS. Which effectively turned off succeeding CSS rules, and invalidated the whole mess. It’s quite lucky, i’d guess, that anything worked at all in some cases.
There’s just a couple more sites to put up.
It was also a fact that, in the night, under a pale but dim goose-neck lamp (a veteran of war, of sorts), he would write his life the way he had always wanted it to be…
Spiffed up the navigation menu a little bit to have submenus, via Suckerfish. Added some poems, grouped mainly by the volume of work from which they spawned.
At least one is a song i’ve been working on for many years, which may soon see the light of day, finally…
Have a lot of catching up to do in many areas. Off to bed with me!