Made some adjustments to my blog theme. search box graphic and placeholder text added jetpack subscriptions module and some css to handle it gave page a max width so it doesn’t look ridiculous on wide screen monitors. sidebar: removed dotted borders added white space, toned down colours – reduced noise Removed grey post-meta-content (categories, tags)… Continue reading Theme updates
Category: Website
Regarding updates to my website….
My Life in Japan
I know, it’s ironic that my first post for 2009 is about 2003-2004, but…. I was looking at some old website designs and was reminded that I had created a static HTML website for blogging while I was in Japan. This was called Steve’s Japan Journal and it is not available anywhere online, right now.… Continue reading My Life in Japan
2008 In Review
Life This year has been pretty big. Naturally following up with lots of events from last year, these are some quick memories. My nephew, Rayden, was born on Feb 12th, six weeks early! This caused the father (my brother) to be indisposed for my dad’s (2nd) marriage on Feb 14th. I got bumped up to… Continue reading 2008 In Review
WordPress 2.7
I just upgraded from 2.6.3 (using my “wp-upgrade” script), and It’s fantastic! Go watch a video about the biggest features. It even includes an “automatic upgrade!!” This pretty much deprecates my script, unless you want to maintain snapshots of each version. (I’m not sure if anyone other than me was using it to begin with…… Continue reading WordPress 2.7
WiiWare and WordPress Update
It was a nice fall day a couple days ago. I really enjoyed this sight, in my backyard. 🙂 Quite overcast and dull, the last couple of days, though. Games I updated my About page with my Tetris Party friend code. (Add me!!) It’s pretty fun, but I say that as someone who has never… Continue reading WiiWare and WordPress Update
Blog Updates
After heavily updating some things on my blog, someone on my shared host server caused the server to die repeatedly. My blog was pretty much gone all of yesterday and part of the day before. Hopefully it’s all been resolved. Anyway, I’ve recently added a Contact page, updated the About page, added OpenID login option… Continue reading Blog Updates
WordPress Upgrade Script
Even though the WordPress upgrade is easy, it’s troublesome. So I wrote a script to do it for me. Yep. There’s lots of these out there. And a lot of hosts (including mine) have a one-click install/update thing. But for some reason, I decided to write my own script. In python. Got to use a… Continue reading WordPress Upgrade Script
Tweet
I signed up for Twitter. If you ever wanted to know what I had for breakfast, now you can! Yay. I also updated my blog’s sidebar with custom widgets; something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I broke up the standard “Meta” widget into a Subscribe and an Admin/Login widget, and shoved the… Continue reading Tweet
Blog is Back (-ish)
Due to hosting issues, my blog was down for nearly a week. But thanks to the miracle of backups, Shirley and a new (dream?) host, I’m gradually bringing it back – just like I did with tie-dye in the eighties and nineties. (Don’t worry, this will be more successful.) So if something isn’t quite working… Continue reading Blog is Back (-ish)
New Theme Update
I’ve removed a lot of the noise from the theme. This includes all of the gradients and many of those nasty, sharp lines. Put Categories and Time at the top of each post, with Tags and Comments at the bottom. Made both smaller. Put everything on search results page. Added links to Technorati and del.icio.us… Continue reading New Theme Update