New style and code
Following on from my post about asides I’ve had a look at trying to create something else. Those of you in the know will clearly see the similar layout to that of Michael’s recent Invader style. Yup that is the inspiration, I’m not going to try and hide it, however I will point out that I’ve not ripped his code or ‘borrowed’ CSS file’s (well clearly looking at the layout) I have spent the time trying to understand ‘theloop’ and the files of K2 and build my own version upon it. I’ve also tried this AJAX thing that every one is going on about or using. There are still a lot of bugs and poorly written code here but it was an interesting little experiment.
To be honest I reckon I’ll change it soon, once I get a better grip on the coding I’ll put mu own spin on it. Full marks to BB for the inspiration.
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it’s the little things
that make a difference. sitting in a classroom this evening I was thinking about things, you know; live, love the universe and it it suddenly hit me; sidebar on the left. you never know it might catch on, if nothing else it's different. now all I need to do is finally get ...
asides
the whole concept of asides to me is an interesting one.
I like the idea of having a seperate section for those off beat comments or posts but I’m still undecided as to the location and style of them. with K2 you have two options; inline or on the side bar. so far I’ve opted for inline but I just don’t think that either place lends itself well to the idea of asides. the sidebar to me is the place for all those funky little ‘php powered’, ‘wordpress’, ‘linux operated’ icons that everone loves to stick in. but the inline option still does not feel right, there is no real seperation between the posts and the ramblings. of course you can change the styles and make them stand out or blend in (which ever your poison) but it still does not just feel right. until I think the man man Michael has shown the way. over the last few weeks the new BB theme; Invader has taken on various guises but his latest work has shown a true difference between the two types of post. I love the concept of the two journals running side by side, so to speak, and the contrast is now easy to understand, you know your reading either an interesting Monday morning quirk or one of those epic insights that leaves you with hmmmm…
for me this is the way forward in terms of this feature, except I neither have the time, knowledge or patience to code it. plus you would need to spin your own version now, hats off to another cutting edge design.
FAlbum plugin
I have been using the flickr album plugin by Ramon Darrow for my photo album but after some rooting around this afternoon I decided to switch over to FAlbum.
With a bit of help from Andreas Linde’s great walkthrough it was up and running in no time. This version looks to have nice admin plugin page which made linking to flickr easy as pie, plus it displays all recent photo’s even if they are not collated in sets.
After a few hourse tweaking and setting it all out I went back to modify some other pages and suddenly was faced with a 500 Server Error! What had just fallen apart?
I then spent a few hours getting to the root of the problem and found removing the .htaccess file for the root and removing permalinks solved it. Right turn permalinks back on; works. Turn friendly url’s on photo plugin on; works. Modify a page and save; 500 Server Error!
It turns out that the FAlbum plugin writes to the .htaccess file but in doing so erases the last #End WordPress marker so when you change a page and WordPress updates the .htaccess file it chokes on the FAlbum section. I manually added the WordPress end marker above the FAlbum being marker and so far it looks to be working ok.
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Blog upgrade
Update: I've finally been able to sort out the Permalinks for the blog. I have felt like a naked blog without decent Permalinks and finally it is sorted! WordPress should sort out the .htaccess file and the Rewrite mod on the server should rewite the url's to suit but some where it ...