just act like you know what you are doing
I think I found the problem with the header file that caused the background in IE to be drawn as blue. I’m playing with the stylesheet now, because that introduced some other wierdness. Now back to the world series or world war 3 or whatever other important disctraction you were previously doing.
Filed under: weblogAs you may notice down on the left, I have added the WASABI WordPress Random Posts plugin. It seems succinct and well written for what it is, a PHP function written around a SQL query. What it is not, however, is documented. There are a couple of comments to this effect. Jeff says:
After all the time it takes to write a plugin, how hard can it be to write one paragraph explaining how to use it?
And .|deuce|. ramps it up a bit with this rant:
I’m sure this plug-in is useful, but to the average blogger, it’s just another piece of insider code … I know there are plenty of people who are indifferent to anyone but the techno-elite, … but elitist code ends up as little more than self-indulgent …
Of course, there are lots of comments to the effect of “good job” and “thanks for this work”, and so on. It seems that this plugin really works for people who could have written it themselves in 2-4 hours of tinkering with PHP and SQL. For those who could never have written it, it will probably take 2-4 hours of tinkering to get it to work.
So, here is some hopefully useful notes on how I got it working.
Filed under: weblogThanks to Wendy Peck for her CSS No Crap Primer. This is a clearly written document that will come in handy for those of us who are not every day web masters and need to tweak a stylesheet. She says “Probably 90% of what I do with CSS for text is included in this primer” and I believe it. What’s more, she clearly shows you the edges of this “quick and dirty” CSS tutorial where more depth may be required to solve a particular problem.
Filed under: The Internet, weblogThanks to Wendy Peck for her CSS No Crap Primer. This is a clearly written document that will come in handy for those of us who are not every day web masters and need to tweak a stylesheet. She says “Probably 90% of what I do with CSS for text is included in this primer” and I believe it. What’s more, she clearly shows you the edges of this “quick and dirty” CSS tutorial where more depth may be required to solve a particular problem.
Filed under: The Internet, weblogis here.
The image linked is unattributed. If it is yours, I would like to know.
Filed under: enviro, The Internet, weblogok, now i’ve got the photos back from the old site and I’ve started to tweak a new theme. Even though it looks pretty good (and simple), under the hood this hiperminimalist theme is kinda yeech. I may (but not likely) make up my own.
Filed under: images, weblogHey, it worked!
I’ve successfully imported my blogging from the old (free version of) Movable Type to here, Wordpress. It was really easy, but as I like to try to make things as difficult as possible, I did it the hardest way I could.
The problem though, is that none of the pictures came along. I’ll work on that tonight perhaps. In the meantime, however … welcome to WordPress :)
Filed under: weblog
