Created a new virtually empty CSS file [View Here] to start with a clean slate. Picked Trebuchet MS as the font (although this may change) after seeing it on Nick Boalch’s weblog which I found today. Modified the MT index template very slightly, so it uses <h4> instead of <div class=”site”>. I was going to do a bit more, but feeling a bit rough, so off to bed. Night.
Removed the calendar, I don’t like that feature, and stuck back in the Recent Comments and BlogRoll. The blogroll looks odd, but I need access to the server to modify the code that generates it, so that’s a job for later.
Next step, think about what I actually want on the index page, and how to lay it out. This is both in terms of “extras” such as the blog roll, and what I actually want to display from the blog entries.
Note to self: rebuilding all the individual entries takes ages, don’t do it very often.
Well, expecting that Kid B wouldn’t sleep every again after saying he was doing so well, I touched wood, wore my lucky rabbit’s paw, prayed to the God of all that is holy, put on my lucky underpants and burnt an efigy of George Bush whilst pushing pins into a voodoo dummy of Tony Blair.
Seems to have done the trick, he didn’t wake until 4am this morning and I think that was because it was very very cold. And an added bonus, Kid A hasn’t had an accident for three days.
After saying this, I’m off to run over a black cat, walk under a ladder and step on all the cracks.
Btw, Saddam, if you want to avoid capture, build yourself a replica London Underground and sit waiting for a train on the Circle Line. Or wait at the other end of the M11. Oh, and can you bring some sand with you, we seem to running short.
I’ll start at the beginning and when using a blog on MT, this means the default templates. This is what it looked like.
Just a couple of modifications from the default actually, the acronym module and Pingback link were inserted back into the templates.
To follow just the redesign process, here is the category archive which is trackback pingable
Mark did it, Zeldman did it and is doing it again. So, I thought, why not? But I I’m going to document every change I make, and the reasons for it.
Goals for the redesign:-
No doubt I’ll fall short of the goals, but having documented the process, I might find out why.
One of the first things I was going to do when I bought my new computer was to wipe the default installation of Windows XP as soon as possible. This was about a year ago, and whilst I have installed Debian as a dual boot, I have yet to reinstall XP. Could it be that XP is unique in Windows operating systems and doesn’t slow down as the cruft builds up, or is the 80Gb hard drive hiding all the cruft and at some time in the future, the system will grind to a sudden and complete stop?