Brandon's Blog

10/24/2007

New Template: Double Meh

I ripped out this template very quickly last night, since the other one was incredibly stupid from a CSS standpoint.  It also had obvious HTML errors in some of the forms, once I looked into the inner workings.

Theming in Textpattern is a nightmare, because it doesn’t really exist.  You just copy-paste a bunch of stuff into a bunch of places and hope it works.  There’s no wonderful, coherent way to backup your old stuff without duplicating all the objects in the database.

Anyway, this is pretty plain but I like it better than the complicated one.  Maybe I’ll just stick with it for a while.

Joey is up and, as far as I can tell and remember, 100% functional.  Hopefully, I’ll have an e-mail in my work account today from VIA to answer my inquiry about ordering a new cooling fan for the CPU.  The bearings in this one are yelling, “I’m about to fail” 24 hours a day right now.  I feel like I owe the poor guy some TLC after a minor security breach and a complete reformat.