February 18, 2009 at 2:41 am
I’ve finally completed and tested my new site theme and, if you’re looking at this post the chances are you’re also looking at the new theme too. :)
I’ve already discovered a couple of minor bugs but I’ll fix those tomorrow.
It’s nice to finally have my site looking the way I want it to.
By the way… just in case you’re looking at this in IE6 and it doesn’t look right: I’m afraid that I don’t really care. I chose to stop supporting IE6 a while ago (see this post). ;)
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Hey Phil,
Liking the new layout you made, but I’m interested to know which bugs you’ve noticed? When I clicked on the topic title to comment on the post I noticed that the styles don’t show up correctly on your right-side navigation. Your buttons become bullet-points instead. Overall, great layout though.
I’ve made myself a WordPress site too to try it out. Also made it so that I can blog my thoughts whilst trying out new Web Applications to make it easier for me to remember my thoughts and experiences with them. Making my assignment easier to write later ;). Have you heard about Web Desktops by any chance? If not, check my blog. I’ve got a list of different ones I’ve found at the bottom of my “What Desktop?” post.
Question about WordPress, do you use any plugins and which would you recommend? Also how do you get the url to ignore the .php or ? referances and replaced with /names/ instead? Somehow I’m guessing its in the .htaccess.
Well that’s interesting, the error seems to have disappeared now. Wonder if it’s only a problem when no comments have been posted? I thought it was because the CSS hadn’t loaded correctly, but I hit F5 lots before stating it was a bug.
Huh – that’s weird… I’ll have to investigate that problem.
As for the bugs that I mentioned… I fixed those the day after I posted the comment. I didn’t think it worth posting about. :)
The nice URL is part of WordPress’ built in functionality – see the Settings->Permalink section of the admin interface. You do need to have mod_rewrite activated in the .htaccess file if your Apache server doesn’t already have the option set.
As for plugins – I can highly recommend Lightbox 2 (to display images in a nice overlay) and WP-SpamFree (um… to keep your site spam free? ^^).
I’ll have a look-see at your blog.
Yup – you’re right. I just tried clicking the header for a post that has no comments yet. It’s a comment-less page that causes the problem. There must be an un-resolved
<div>somewhere.I’ve now fixed it. ^^
Well, good luck fixing it. :)
I’ve made some cool updates to my blog. Thanks for the heads up on the PermaLinks. :)
It is done and fixed. Funny thing (if you’re a geek like me)… I thought it was a <div> that I hadn’t closed. It turns out I’d closed one too many. Ooops.
To be honest, I thought it would be something similar to your theory because the rest of the page was loading up fine – ‘grats on finding/fixing it. :)
Oh, the animation on my blog… I was at my friends house, Phil, the other day (lazy cswk guy – I think you know who I mean :P), and it worked perfectly on his machine! Looks REALLY cool, just wish it worked on mine (and others)! Might have to look into the code at some point and see if I can fix it, or determine the problem.