I like to mess about with my websites – gives me something to do during the holidays/days off other than watching TV, drinking beer at 11am or arguing with idiots on Eurogamer. 🙂
This week I’ve latched onto a lovely new theme called ‘The World in 35mm‘ for Pixelpost. It’s working nice over at The Daily Exposure and it basically solves my long-standing problem with comments and photograph info in that it elegantly hides and displays both below the photo, on the same page, with no fancy stuff that people using browsers like IE will struggle with.
My current info/comment solution was a hand-tweaked version of Lightbox, which is pretty cool but apparently doesn’t play so nice with said stupid browsers. I think this will work a lot better.
As I haven’t really got any idea how to run a test-version of my site privately while I tweak, I’m going to have to start faffing around with the live version so if you visit over the next few hours and days you’ll probably notice it looking a bit odd. Feel free to laugh at my appalling coding skillz as I tweak and tweak again!
Cheers, folks.
UPDATE: I’ve had a good look at how the template is written and the work that would be involved trying to make my current look fit into the way 35mm does things, and it’s far too much effort.
So, new approach: I’m going to try and rip out the info/comment code and implant it into my baby…
UPDATE 2: Holy crap this is far too much effort all round. I’m going back to my original plan – make 35mm look like my glass eye…
UPDATE 3: And it’s done! I need to tweak the About page as it’s not ideal (how the heck do you do columns properly without forcing their position?) and the News page needs to be tweaked to match the top menu properly, and I need to do the Dark CSS sheet so that the Styleswitcher works, but to all intents and purposes, BOO-YA. That was a whole morning of fun 😉
