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Tony — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:37:03 +0000

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?

Something

Tony — Tue, 23 May 2006 22:53:10 +0000

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...

8:57PM

Here, just something else I whipped up in my free time:
Interrobang Background

More Site Work

Tony — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:17:48 +0000

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).

(2/21/2005 - 9:42)
Changed the single post view as follows:

Changed the way the categories and time are displayed. Now follows same format as main page.
Changed the alignment on the post body. Used to be justified, ew, 'tis now left aligned.
Changed the admin-only edit link and comments link (actually, I removed the comments link, no need for it on the single post page) so that the little pipe doesn't show up when not logged in as admin.

New CSS

Tony — Thu, 27 May 2004 22:44:37 +0000

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.

blockquote

Tony — Sun, 23 May 2004 20:15:16 +0000

Fire and rain.

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I didn't even know that that was in the CSS...

Bored..

Tony — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:56:16 +0000

So I decided to start working on that 3 column layout that I've always wanted.

Check it out here.

This site gave me the basic layout to work from, and I've been modifying it as I please to get it to look like what I currently have. However, if I do make this template my new main one... I won't be able to use any of the other stylesheets that I've acquired through MovableStyle. Hm, oh well... We'll see how it works out. If it doesn't look to good I won't use it, but will, instead, stick with the current layout.

ARGG!!

Tony — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:46:23 +0000

::pissed off:: I can't make a stylesheet (using the main one as a basis, the blue one, bar on the left, etc.) where there's two sidebars: one on the right, one on the left; without running into some sort of trouble. With the bar on the right, when the window is smaller than 1024 pixels (horizontally) the right sidebar runs into the content area, even though the content area resizes itself!! It's making me so mad! I'd like to be able to stick everything BUT the links and calender in the right sidebar, have the content in the middle, and be happy! Gr.. Maybe I should look towards another solution, give up, or just not go with that idea... OR! If you know what you're doing with CSS, then try it! I'd show you what I have so far, but it's at school right now...

Damn you all.

Tony — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:53:37 +0000

I take it noone watches Futurama? My past titles have all been from Futurama. And noone caught on.

Bastards.

I've added some more stylesheets to the list. Like I said, if you're not using FireBird/FireFox (or some other browser that's not IE and allows for alternate stylesheets), use it! You can get FireFox at http://mozilla.org. I suggest you do. Or, if you want, get the full blown Mozilla package. Personally, I just opt for FireFox and ThunderBird cause I don't need all the other stuff that comes with Mozilla.

I swear I'll make my own stlyesheet eventually. Really. I will. Why don't you believe me?

Um, yea. In English we had an impromtu essay today... Normally I can get them done right at the bell, but I wasn't even done with my second body paragraph (4 paragraph essay) by the time the bell rang... Both body paragraphs were huge... The essay was supposed to be 3 hand-written pages, I got 2.15..ish... Now I really DO wish the class periods were a full hour like Bemis...

Half days are fun... We had an SO meeting today, from 10 till 12:15 (well, I left at 12:15 anyway). Dyouji got his watch stuck in an iMac too. It's a USB watch with 128mb on it. He plugged it into one of the USB ports on the iMac, but it didn't recognize it. So he was gonna try the second port, but it wouldn't come out. By the time I left, however, he finally got it out, but it doesn't seem to be working properly anymore. At least that's how I understand it. Fun stuff indeed.

Um, yea..? This has been quite a long post compared to some of my recent ones... I remember, back in the summer of 2002 (when I first started this whole journal/blog thing, back when I used blogger even, back before urgn.com even!) I used to write HUGE posts on stuff. HUGE I say! And I did practically NOTHING (that I remember) that was even remotely interesting! Oh well. Man, I'm surprised I've kept this thing for this long... It'll be 2 years this June (the 6th, have you bought my journal a birthday present yet?). If you want to see all of my archives, blogger and all, they're all here. Just check the side bar under the Archives heading.

OK, now I think I'm done... She's crossed my mind a couple of times during my day, and even during this post... I just wish I had the courage to talk to her...

NOTE: ALL STYLESHEETS EXCEPT Main AND Right WERE ACQUIRED FROM http://moveablestyle.com.

Ahhh!!

Tony — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:32:48 +0000

Having trouble getting alternate stylesheets to work properly... If you use Firebird/Firefox (which you should be anyway, IE is shit), there will be this little crayon box icon in the bottom left corner of the browser. Click it. You'll see 5 options on my site:

No Theme
Basic Theme

Only 4 people read this site?

Tony — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:24:33 +0000

I only got four comments, but they did help a little. I got some advice from Jason before school today, he said to make that there was too much contrast between the text and the background, but the background was fine. He suggested changing the text to a nice #e0e0e0, and it looks fine. I didn't change it to white, because the links are white, but it still looks great. I added a dotted underline to the links to distinguish (sp?) them from the body text (you can tell that their different colors without the underline, but it's easier this way.) I fixed the order of

and the &ltdiv class="blog"> tags, so their in the right places now, and this stylesheet will work with other templates based off of the main MovableType template (which I'd like to move away from for once, my current one is still slightly based off of it). Well, I started this post yesterday at the end of Web Page, saved it, and never got to finishing it at home, so I'm finishing this up now, before class starts. ::bell rings:: More like a tone though...