Spent the evening working here. Upgraded MU WordPress to 2.7. So far, so good. No glitches, bugs or major problems. Nice.
Upgraded to the latest version of K2, made the modifications I had in the older version. Still need to upgrade for the home site.
Just about done with K2 for Comics. Modifed it to flow with the rest of the site. Should be cleaned up and available for anyone who wants it tomorrow.
Listened to the blip feed for a good while. Didn’t blip as much as I would have liked. That’s what I get for being such a piss poor code monkey.
Goodnight, kids.
AB
Lemme know if there are any problems, glitches, etc.
AngryBob
I took a fuck-off day from work yesterday. It was nice. I woke up, took Angela to school, came home and wrote for a good chunk of the day, did some behind the scenes work on Jedi Jesus for some more of the day and did some serious thinking.
I need more days like that. More time like that.
So, the news is that I have successfully mashed ComicPress with k2 (the main theme on this site). There is still some clean up to do, but the comics appear where they should and the navigation mostly works the way it should.
Also in the news column, is that I have resumed work on the comic. Yes, I have the first two pages of the second story arc roughed out. I’ll bring it to work to finish the pencils, ink, color and scan. First page should be up in a week or so. There’s some ret-con going on, as I’m going to do away with some of the references to pre-existing Star Wars characters.
So new comics soon. Very soon. Maybe some Bad Napkin Art too.
And I haven’t forgotten that pod-cast project. Just been difficult to organize, but I think that’ll be coming together shortly as well.
Okay. It’s about bed-time.
Things are moving apace on ill-literati.org. I need to finalize some things with the theme. After some discussion with The Dude, I agreed that the new look (also seen here) is too stark. I wasn't sure if I was being self critical or not, so having some input helped.
It should look a little more like the theme over at http://ill-literates.com/testheme if you wanna go see it.
The Comics are now up at ill-literati.org though, including a new Jedi Jesus. Linkage follows:
Share and enjoy. More coming soon.
AB
.: And this is it. You're looking at it. It's a black and white theme and this is what I've been spending my time doing.
Right now, it's finished for my own personal use for here and Ill-Literati.org. I'm using TTFTittles for both the blog name and the blog description in the header, as well as for the post titles. For general use, I'll need to pull the code for that and make it standard code so that people aren't forced into using TTFTitles if they feel like using this theme.
It is nice. And simple. And it really took no time at all once I finally decided what I wanted it to really look like.
So, now I have to send it up to Ill-Literati.org and start moving some of these blogs over there. That means that I also have to set it up for use with code from ComicPress.
Aside from that, I'm doing well. Thanks for asking.
AB
.: I have a lot of things to talk about today. Most of them will be short. I'll start with the theme I've been working on.
Ill-Literati 1.0 is nearly done. You can check it out here but keep in mind a few things:
- This is my first theme done from scratch (or from Kubrick, which is what most WordPress themes are based on). So if it bears an uncanny resemblance to the current theme on this site, it's because I wrote it like that. I like the format of this site, but it was a couple of themes that I mashed together to make this one. I did peek at some of the code from this site to do certain things I didn't know how to do (like setting up span classes to get the icons in the meta info below the post title, and setting up the calendar to have them boxes around the dates).
- It's designed to be used by anybody, which is why there is no fancy graphic for the title of the page, or for the navigation links. Those can be added or modified by the end user.
- It's not done. Officially, I suppose it should be called version 0.9 or some such shit, but what can you do?
- I know it's very, very simple as far as design and color. There was no point in going nuts on a theme for my first. And it's best viewed at 1024 x 768 or larger. There will be a smaller version for smaller resolutions, and possibly a scalable version using % rather than px for design layout.
I'll be finishing it up tonight for it's official 1.0 release. Very little clean up to do, but there is some.
I have some nifty ideas for new themes, now that I think I have the hang of it. Ranging from simple, to quixotic. I may be able to get a couple banged out before I come of the night shift. Until then…
AB
.: I've been coding php for two nights straight. It's been sloppy and I keep making very silly, very simple mistakes. So I'm taking the next few hours off, going to do some work (whatever I find around the office to keep busy with, anyway) and think about going to New Jersey to see my family for Easter.
I've been designing the ill-literati theme using Kubrick as a base, but doing most of it from scratch. I finished the CSS last night, finally tweaked the header out as far as layout goes and now I'm working on the sidebars. That's what's been confudding me out here.
Fuck. I think I just figured it out. But I'm not going to play with it now. I'm burned out, man.
What I want to do is have two sets of side bars. One for post (blog) pages that has two columns, and one for page pages that only has one, so that the page content can be wider but the main sidebar links and categories remain. And I've been losing my mind.
But I've done it before, for the footer on this site.
I was trying to set it up as an include on the page template. But maybe I can just do it the way I did the ones for the footer. I'll play with it tomorrow/tonight when I come back into work, unless things pick up.
I'm off to drink more coffee.
AB
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