Above the Fold: The Blog

I’ve been wandering around in the backend of this blog and discovered that it’s really very cool. The template system is incredibly powerful and uses PHP, giving me a chance to play around a little more in PHP. It’s also heavy on the CSS, something that I’ve really been getting stuck into over the last eighteen months. I’ve built a site from the ground up using PHP and a MySQL database, but this should be interesting because it’s a case of taking advantage of PHP functions that already exist.

I’ve already been able to customise this template slightly, makign the text re-sizable in IE, although the subheadings on the sidebar don’t have quite as much top margin as they should. Drat IE and it’s non-standardisation! But I’ve had a look at the codex and can see how I can sort the Blogroll links by name, although I’ll need to sit down and back-up the current template before I do anything extensive to it. Never hurts to be careful

That, of course, is why I didn’t lose an entire day’s worth of work when the power went out at work today. Obsessive saving and version numbered back-ups. Learnt from four months of working on flaky Windows NT computers with frequent visits from Dr Watson.
I’m being dull and techy already. Must remedy that.

Well, I’ve finally dusted off the blog and sorted a few things out. The blog has moved over to a WordPress back-end which I’m already loving a lot more than Blogger. Old posts can now be found at The Old Blog and the LiveJournal feed should now be automatic. Hopefully this will encourage me to maintain this much better.

And hey, I even got the theme to match the site a little better! I’m planning to rejig and redesign the main site - the footers break in IE, sadly - and I should be able to integrate the blog properly because WordPress themes are so much easier to fiddle with.

But now I must get back to more important things - such as watching Life on Mars.