I was scoping out some web design sites for ideas on how to portray my site the way I actually want to (and this is still not it yet, but close, Charlie) and I somehow got sidetracked by some of the references to sites and thoughts about the recent CSS Reboot (which I certainly will not be entering any time soon - you have to know web design a bit, I think). One of the posts on one of the sites in my journey (sorry, but I forgot where I was at the time, or you’d get a link) referred to This Page by This Guy. He’s hilarious! Thinking so that you don’t have to! Fresh, I say.
I was perusing through all the themes at the Wordpress Theme Browser (yes, all of them), looking for something for download similar to Shadows beautiful theme. I found a few that I may be displaying randomly over the next little while. The one that I like (along with my wife) is the one displayed today, called Greenwood. I’ve added The Recent Comments plugin and changed the get_linksbyname php call to get_links_list(’name’) and wrap it in an unordered list tag because its less code and looks better overall :yes :yes :yes
I’ll probably try to integrate the adminbar plugin sometime to see if I can do it without screwing up this artful theme. Tell me what you think.
I’ve been hogging the computer this weekend while hacking my site (especially this part of it). Well, most of this theme and most of the “ConestogaStreet” theme now validate as xhtml-1.0 transitional. I’ve been cleaning up other parts of the site as well. The front page and the linux page are both clean enough to validate as xhtml-1.1-transitional. I think that’s a pretty good feat, considering my newness to xhtml and css. A lot of the Wordpress theme pages are written with a lot of php as well, so I’ve been diving right in. I don’t remember many of the commands by name, but I’m starting to get the concept.
So, I don’t know what’s gonna go with my editor of choice. I’ve been a big NVu fan but it can’t handle .css or .php files and it doesn’t want to save files with a DOCTYPE of xhtml. It annoyingly converts the string back to HTML-4.01 and “fixes” all of my edited self-closing tags, which aren’t xhtml anymore. I’ve had a good time using AllyCat editor. Its freeware for Windows, so I’ve been using Windows most of the weekend. I’m glad Gimp comes in Win32 flavor too.
If you look to the right, you’ll see that I’ve added a theme switcher, so you can switch among some of the themes I have installed. The only ones I have seriously hacked yet are this one and the one you saw yesterday, but I’m kind of liking the Way-Too-Clean theme. Perhaps, after a few serious color changes, I may use it as default. Who knows! Tell me what you think of all this.
