Just to make sure people landing here today know they are on the right site, YES, I did update my theme. 
I originally thought I’d like the split 3-column look of the other one but found that the eyes would need to scan extremes of the page to find things. So then I decided that one column would be all bloggy things and the other social media meta stuff, but I was struggling getting the theme to do anything right. The CSS was beyond insane.
Finally, I installed this one in time for tomorrow and will continue to make tweaks. I’ll replace the mountain graphic with something more personal and start populating the sidebar with all the things I couldn’t in the other theme. I wanted to have it ready all at once, but reality and the 80/20 rule set in. If you have any comments or suggestions, let me know!
I just upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.3 from 2.2.1 (yes, I skipped 2.2.2). I kinda like things not to be broken, so I don’t run the “bleeding edge” builds (betas, RCs, etc.) but I did start using Subversion to manage the source tree so that I could do updates way easier. I am a dyed-in-the-wool user of CVS (no, that’s not the pharmacy chain) and using Subversion took a lot less getting used to than I thought, certainly from a client-only POV. The main thing I’m looking forward to in this release is native tagging. Yes, I know there have been plugins to do this, but I am glad I procrastinated, because now it’s something I don’t have to worry about converting. (who says procrastination doesn’t pay?!)
So, if things don’t work for whatever reason, let me know. Otherwise, things should be exactly how they were. I will be changing themes soon, mainly to take advantage of the new tagging and sidebar widget features. I’ve had this one for over a year and a half, and the reason you’ve seen it nowhere else but here is because it’s a horribly hacked copy of another theme. I’m a techno-geek, not a designer, so when I start blindly experimenting with CSS, black clouds loom overhead, birds fly out of the treetops, and that ominous foreboding of what visual havoc I may wreak fills the ether.
Luckily for all, I do all my tinkering on a dummy instance of Wordpress on my own computer. The disfigured alignments, twisted typefaces and ghastly graphics of my CSS carnage never leave my workstation. (Halloween is coming up–I’m just getting in the mood…heh.)
Here are some recent, helpful Wordpress links until my next post:
Blogging/Web2.0 | enrico | 
December 1, 2008 11:28 am | 
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