Spent some more time playing around with the php and css that runs the blog. I’ve now made it so the sidebar is visible on most pages (I think)… I’ve added a couple links to the header, changed the title structure a bit, and modified the background slightly… here is a new screen shot of the current state.
Next task is to work on the Sidebar a bit more…
Back in May I watched one of Terry White’s Podcasts on Contribute CS3 which showed how you can use Contribute CS3 to update your blog. So decided to sit down and figure out how that works…
The first attempt was interesting as I had a new blog entry all done up and posted and then noticed that the date was wrong on the entry – started playing around with that and somehow managed to delete the post… GRR… Even more interesting is a few hours later it showed up again…. very odd…
Some interesting little bugs I came across… there is a BlogHub.csi file in the App Data section of the users local settings that has to be edited to allow photos wider than a 150px photo (it has a height/width limiter in the file)… also had to set up a new directory on the server for uploads and adjust permissions so WordPress and Contribute can upload photos…
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