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So a friend (hi Yana) reminded me that oh, I need to post more. Which is true, I've mostly been microblogging because 1) I keep my microblog locked, 2) nobody here cares about RP shenanigans, and 3) also nobody cares about my spammy, spammy thoughts on fandom (I make running-commentary plurks when reading stuff). So in news people might actually care about:
-Frustrating job laid me off, which effectively resolved my dilemma if I should quit and search harder for something that wasn't pure physical labor at insane overtime.
-I have been swimming in a sea of CSS, mostly working on things for Dreamwidth instead of, oh, any of my own sites. But it's like slacking off productively!
-I have failed utterly at working on learning any other coding language (aside from a bit of S2 and that doesn't count)
-I have pretty much managed to keep to my cleaning goal.
-I'm considering trying to save up for a new car because 1) the crazy lady next door keeps threatening to have mine towed and 2) some jackass smashed one of my windows in and 3) the car is sixteen years old and showing it's age.
-Started reading Marvel comics. If I disappear, I've fallen too deep into the abyss. Don't follow me.
I'm also starting to realize I need to upgrade my personal blog - it's still running Moveable Type 4.1 which is... years old. And uses tables for layout, and now that I look, has no wide content handler. And the layout is a little embarassingly old-school in light of my DW stuff. Options are most likely either upgrading MT which has the pro of a templating language I know and the con of being owned by Six Apart who I'm not fond off after how they handled LJ, or switching to Wordpress. I don't know if the Wordpress templating system has gotten less complex since I first looked at in like 2005, but I've become a better coder, and it does seem to be the blogging software these days. Thoughts, anyone?
-Frustrating job laid me off, which effectively resolved my dilemma if I should quit and search harder for something that wasn't pure physical labor at insane overtime.
-I have been swimming in a sea of CSS, mostly working on things for Dreamwidth instead of, oh, any of my own sites. But it's like slacking off productively!
-I have failed utterly at working on learning any other coding language (aside from a bit of S2 and that doesn't count)
-I have pretty much managed to keep to my cleaning goal.
-I'm considering trying to save up for a new car because 1) the crazy lady next door keeps threatening to have mine towed and 2) some jackass smashed one of my windows in and 3) the car is sixteen years old and showing it's age.
-Started reading Marvel comics. If I disappear, I've fallen too deep into the abyss. Don't follow me.
I'm also starting to realize I need to upgrade my personal blog - it's still running Moveable Type 4.1 which is... years old. And uses tables for layout, and now that I look, has no wide content handler. And the layout is a little embarassingly old-school in light of my DW stuff. Options are most likely either upgrading MT which has the pro of a templating language I know and the con of being owned by Six Apart who I'm not fond off after how they handled LJ, or switching to Wordpress. I don't know if the Wordpress templating system has gotten less complex since I first looked at in like 2005, but I've become a better coder, and it does seem to be the blogging software these days. Thoughts, anyone?
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Date: 2012-08-30 03:59 pm (UTC)From:That said it /is/ my go-to CMS for my website clients, and what I use for my fic archive, and if you want to give it a shot I can probably help some. Thankfully, the documentation is also recovering a bit from the weird wipe-and-rewrite it went through around the 2.4 mark.
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Date: 2012-08-30 08:07 pm (UTC)From:Do you have any templates/base themes you'd rec for CSS theming? Like TR for DW, or Zen for Drupal.
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Date: 2012-08-30 08:45 pm (UTC)From:*rueful* I have my own base theme that I use, but I haven't updated the blog-version in a while so I can't quite recommend it. "Twenty Eleven" and "Suffusion" are popular themes that have some nice built-in options and good html without being overstyled, though.
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Date: 2012-08-30 08:59 pm (UTC)From:Which reminds me - how good is Wordpress about content import? I have eleven years of archives currently in MT, and I can't quite remember what it's output formatting is like, though if it comes to it, I can do what I did with DeadJournal and make a new theme with the right formatting tags, and just copy and page all the archives out.
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Date: 2012-08-30 09:07 pm (UTC)From:Also, if you want documentation on anything, googling "wordpress $term" will generally get you the codex page for that thing in the first five hits. Like importing *fishes around for a second* here (http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Movable_Type). There's decent directions for a lot of stuff in there, including things like set-up and theme modification. Wiki documentation pretty much rocks my world.
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Date: 2012-08-30 09:08 pm (UTC)From:Now I think the hard part will be remembering how to make new MySQL tables via commandline XD
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Date: 2012-08-31 10:39 pm (UTC)From:A quicky SQL source to do this:
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Date: 2012-08-31 10:41 pm (UTC)From:wordpress templating
Date: 2012-08-31 10:32 pm (UTC)From:WP Template Framework itself is pretty good, it's what I use. I've also used Thematic, which was pretty good as well, although it is not well documented.
Re: wordpress templating
Date: 2012-08-31 10:38 pm (UTC)From: