Do Learn When to Stop Tinkering

Thursday 12th March 2009

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I screwed my blog templates up. Have tried everything I could think of to get them restored to their former glory, even Dreamhost’s autorestore didn’t work, wtf? All to no avail.

So that’s why you’ve got this crappy looking site to deal with right now.

I am so so sorry.

[Update, dropping the functions.php helped but now I'm missing me sidebars. And there nothing worse than missing sidebars.]
[Update 13.03.2009: Still arsing about with this timesucking template shenanigans. Looks like I'll be coming up; with a fresh new look soon.]
[Update 18.03.2009: Have looked for a new theme that I'd be happy with and there's not one out there so it's time for me to learn how to build one from scratch to my own exact needs. Watch that space.]

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Blogroll

Wednesday 9th July 2008

It’s taken me some time, but I’ve recently realised that the courteous thing to do on one’s tinterweb netspeakery siteage is to have one of those newfandangled ‘blogrolls’. For the ignorant, a blogroll is a list of other blogs you feel deserve a mention, a namecheck and/or that you think are worth reading enough to pass them on to your readers. Preferably the people on your blogroll also have their own blogroll on their site and some reciprocal love will then result in more traffic for you both.

You’ll find the blogroll living over there in the sidebar to the right.

If you’re feeling left out and would like to be added to the roll, drop me a line. If you’re reading this, are still to jump on the blogging bandwagon and feel you’ve something worth sharing with the blogosphere, I suggest you start by signing up for a free blog site at wordpress.com.

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Photos on Site Sorted At Last

Saturday 13th October 2007

At long last, I’ve sorted out phot on the site after a large gap with nothing up. I’ve hunted high and low to find some blog imaging software that I’m happy with. These are the ways I could have gone but dismissed them. In order of the next most likely to be used:

  • Gallery2 through WPG2: Was looking great until I saw how heavy and slow it was. Also, as he name suggests, it’s embedded, so it’s just doesn’t slip in neatly to the blog, themes were overiding my css, content pages distorted my theme, far from perfect.
  • YAPB: I just didn’t get it. It looked nice on a couple of examples I found out there but somehow the UI wasn’t intuitive enough to grab me into using it.
  • Adobe CS2/ Dreamweaver: Been there done that, not fit for this purpose. I need everything proper-automated and integrated within the blog. These 2 are too generic in their themed designs, I want the ability to easily make changes where needs be, and again has to blog software related.
  • Coppermine: A mess, no thanks.
  • Flickr / Picasa: wanted to keep it personal and ‘in-house’.

So from now on there should be regular photo updates. Am off out, camera in hand…

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