I’ve finished a lot of the rolling into jQueryUI. The best part about this is that I don’t have to choose my own color themes (I can use one of the presets), even though obviously now I can do lots of cool JQuery stuff. I’ve also finally successfully integrated a WordPress blog with my theme, so I’ll be able to easily post updates. Yes some people don’t really care much for WordPress. But hey, now I can easily roll in an RSS feed for the blog, and all of it is completely managed for me.
I still have to find a good image for my header, or even a different color. It works okay as it is but I feel there’s room for improvement. I also need to roll in the ability to comment on these posts. It really only requires a comments.php but comments are always logistically a bit tougher to do with WordPress than they really should be.
I’ll be rolling in cool JQuery effects when I get around to it. I’m still fairly new to this layout and I’m not quite sure what I want to do with it yet. Stay tuned for updates.
I’ve made several additions to this site, the most significant of which are commenting. Now anyone can comment on the blog portion. I’ve also changed the right sidebar when looking at the blog so that you can navigate by topic or even search the blog for particular keywords.
I cleaned up a lot of my code to minimize redundancy. This means the blog now uses my site’s regular CSS styles instead of having its own folder with the same files modified slightly. It’s just going to be a huge time saver since I only need to modify one stylesheet to get both the blog and the rest of the site up to date. I’ve also made minor style modifications, although I still haven’t touched the header. It’s pretty bad, and I want to change it, and add a pic to it.
Other things I still want to do (in no particular order):
I’ll try to get some opinions about the header as I’m pretty terrible at graphics design. I’ll probably tackle the RSS feed and adding useful content to the right sidebar first, but we’ll see.
Tags: clean code, comments, Wordpress
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