Web Work
February 23rd, 2009
I guess very few people have seen KCNB in its original form. If you’re interested in some of the previous (hideous) themes from the site, I’ve stuck them up on my portfolio in the section titled “Web Development”.
Probably the most interesting is the theme that almost came into being this time around:
KCNB Fresh Front Page
I’m still trying to find the source code for the terrible blogging/forum software I wrote before – I know it’s archived somewhere. I’ll get it up here too if I can get hold of it.
Plugins and Stuff
August 4th, 2008
Since Ashok just got a new WordPress blog and was asking about plugins for it, I thought it was about time to update my own.
Behind the scenes now I’m using wp-super-cache (not that I get enough traffic to actually need it), the All in One SEO plugin that everyone recommends, and an XML sitemap plugin. I’ve also set up automatic backups.
I’d really like to have a go at writing a WordPress plugin, but I can’t think of anything that I want which doesn’t already exist. Anything in particular you would like to see?
Otherwise, are there any other great plugins which you think might help my blog?
New Theme Issues
July 28th, 2008
As you will hopefully have noticed, KCNB has recently undergone a change of themes.
Whilst I consider this one mostly complete (although I’m always open to suggestions and changes) there is still one particular issue I don’t know how to sort. It occurs on the index pages with lists of posts, and as far as I can tell only in Firefox. Each post extract is contained within a <div> element, which is in turn contained within a link to the correct page. For the most part the CSS functions correctly – when you move your mouse anywhere over the box, the background colour changes.
However, from time to time instead of this each piece of text becomes a link, as you can see in the image here.
The strangest thing is that this doesn’t even occur every time the page is loaded, reloading the page can cause the post to be displayed correctly. It also occurs more on certain posts than others, although I can’t find anything which makes them different.
I’m left wondering whether this might be more a problem with Firefox’s rendering the page, but I’d still like to fix it.
If you have any thoughts on how I could achieve this effect in a different way, I’d be happy to hear it. Also, if you’ve noticed other problems with this theme in modern browsers, please let me know here.
Knowing When To Quit
January 10th, 2008
So I spent most of my Christmas holidays programming a blogging engine and community site. It was going alright, and with a little more work I could have had it usable, and yet, I’m now sitting with a WordPress blog and no intention of going back.
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