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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The past couple of days there has been ice on some of the trees around town (of course none of the trees around our house have them!!) – today I ran back to the house after dropping Jon off at school and grabbed my camera to take some photos of the trees around the local library… everything was melting fast but at least I managed to get a few photos… I need to start bringing my camera with me….
Nothing done to these other than running image processor in PSCS3 to make them smaller for the blog…
I’m slowly figuring out the css and coding for wordpress and so the page is starting to look a bit better…
Here is a screen shot from IE7 taken just before this post was made.
Unfortunately it seems it is broken in Firefox… 🙁 Now to figure that issue out…
