sugardeath

working on something here… dunno how well / if it will turn out…

Work sucked balls today. Worst night I have ever worked. Zois’ new rules combined with being understaffed the night the new Die Hard opens == hell. I think I am getting burned out at the theatre. This is a weird feeling. I wonder if I could stage a massive walk-out. That would be pretty sweet.

That green is kinda pukey, don’t you think?

Just practicing using CSS to set up a simple layout… Check it out.

Maybe a real update later? There’s a lot of stuff going through my head right now…

Messed with the CSS and templates so as to get the sidebar to always display. It annoyed me how it disappeared, especially when it seemed as if it was needed most. ‘Twas actually REALLY easy to do so. I love the way WP1.5 handles themes! Every aspect or piece of the theme is contained in a separate php file. Each file is then called through a series of php commands. This makes each theme easily magageable and containable. If something is wrong, you now know exactly where to look. Well, if you know what’s wrong, that is, otherwise you can easily find what’s wrong by going through the template files. I had something similar to this back when I used to use MovableType. Basically, I took the code that displayed the posts and put it in it’s own template file. I did the same with the sidebar. That was the extent of my system, however. This system is MUCH better! Everything from the header to the post data to the comments to the sidebar to the archive template to the main template, and even the search form! are contained within these template files. Sure, this means the theme contains many files, but wouldn’t you rather have more, smaller files than one huge-ass file for the entire site? I would.

That’s enough to make one wet one’s pants. But they went a step further. Instead of just dividing up the files into easily manageable, bitesize bits, they’ve also added a whole new system for choosing themes! With WP1.2, I had to backup my index.php and all the other files associated with the theme. I then had to put my new theme up in it’s place. Hardly a friendly system. Now, with WP1.5, I just drop the files into wp-content/themes/%themename%, add a few lines to the styles.css so that WP sees it as a valid theme, and I’m set! I go into the WP-Admin control panel, click on ‘Presentation’ and choose the theme I want. It’s SO much nicer! I plan to make use of this new system QUITE a bit! Hopefully I can finally make a new theme for this site without too much hassle. I’ve already got quite a few themes in there: Neuron (one I downloaded, pretty nice), Sato - Blue (this one), Sato -Gray (same as this one, gray instead of blue), Slate (old-school Sato theme!), WordPress Classic (default theme for WP pre1.5), WordPress Default (default WP1.5 theme, based on the Kubrick theme. The demo site is actually running WP1.2).

I added a new CSS for this site. It’s entitle “Left” and just moves the menu bar that’s on the right over to the left. It’s simple for the time being, but I plan on eventually giving this site a full makeover type thingy. Eventually. Definitely not now. I don’t even know what I want it to look like yet, but I do know that I don’t want the regular layout, it’s just too… regular… and common… Hm… But yea, new CSS up. If you’re using FireBird/Fox, yay for you! If not, it better not be IE that you’re using.

Fire and rain.

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I didn’t even know that that was in the CSS…