It was time for a change. The old site was nice, but i got tired of how cartoonish it looked, like most of my older web-design. a great leap forward was calling at me.

The problem is, technology doesn’t solve the basic issues of picking out a theme you like. And then i get to get in touch with my feminine side and pick and nag at it to customize it and make it just so. This is mostly pretty fun, but its also work. The most noticeable tweaks to the width took about an hour during a slow workday. From there is was tweaking colors, link behavior, separators, the contents of the sidebar, and about a dozen total little changes. Its nice to see my relatively smooth working competency with CSS and PHP, and always a good mental exercise to work with code – even if it is simple code. The most complicated issue was something i’m the only one who would notice – post separator characters after the last post on a page. The php code here was all wrapper classes with particularities to its behaviors, but between the code and the WordPress docs I could not find a way to do what i wanted. WordPress docs are helpful for common things, but it was like USA Today for programmers, almost informative but useless for hardcore information — perfect for the average web designer who is capable but not fluent with coding. I’m an anomaly in that my coding isnt very good, but I’m used to working with sophisticated codebase’s and reading more technical code docs. So i was at once bored and frustrated with the WordPress docs. Finally i found out the info on a message board. and Beckie did acknowledge how much nicer the tweak made the page look, when you compared them side by side, and gave a shit!

The graphic looks nice, but took a stupid amount of time, as farting around with graphics always does.   And I managed to prick my fingers a bunch of times getting the right shot. stupid chollaballs.