WordPress Update
Ok, well, after alot of grief i’ve finally updated my blog theme.
Basically nothing worked the way i wanted it to, so i went ultra simple. Also theres a few plug-ins i need that haven’t been released for v2.5 yet, so im kind of stuck without them for the moment.
The blog is now fixed width, so pictures wont be squashed like they were before (when viewed with a small screen). The colour scheme is a little bit different too, still need to make a couple small changes though.
The main thing about having a fixed width theme is that i cant post 800px wide pictures anymore as they wont fit when you include the right toolbar. The way to fix this is either getting rid of the toolbar (which i considered), or resizing the images to 650px wide (which i ended up doing). Im working on a fancy rollover ability to view the pictures at 800px, but it’ll take me a little while to get going. For the moment some of the pictures in my older posts will be squashed, but thats because i haven’t gone back and resized everything smaller for the new theme. Im not going to bother until i get all the new features up and running.
I like this theme because its clean and simple AND it has a header that can contain pictures unlike by previous one. Actually, the header now loads up images randomly, ooh fancy.
Anyway, this thing has given me a bit of grief, and its not all fixed yet, but im glad i’ve made a change. The old theme looks terrible now in comparison i think.
One thing that still pisses me off about wordpress though is the image upload process. Hopefully they upgrade flexible upload soon. It’s exactly what i’ve been lookign for.
Cheers
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