Everything In Between

In an effort to allow some semblance of a unified site, I’m hacking WordPress to my liking so that I’ll be able to quickly and easily update things here and keep on keepin’ on writing. Basically, this means things are going to be up in the air for a while. Not like that’s anything new around here, but the point is that they’re not supposed to be up in the air, and that’s what I’m trying to create for myself.

This is actually a slightly bigger project than one might expect, and so I won’t be surprised if I miss a few things. If you’re so inclined, please help by letting me know when things don’t work. A broken link, a broken form, news feeds not working for you, heck, even a typo. It all really helps me out. Thanks!

For now this basic design will work, and I’m in the process of making the site database-driven. I’m sort of working from the top down, though. I still haven’t finished the stylesheets for the project, and I’m also finalizing what kind of XHTML I’m going to output. Ideally, I’d like the site to use several stylesheets with the same template at once and so this complicates the markup issue slightly. Also as far as stylesheets go, I’m aware of a few problems in some browsers, so those will have to be worked through as well. Honestly, though, it’s mostly fine in most browsers, and that’s mostly okay with me. There are other issues to attend to.

First, though, I want to make sure the system is working properly. For instance, if you’re trying to recieve newsfeeds via SharpReader then you won’t be able to access any of my feeds. I’m still trying to figure this one out so the best thing I can say would be to use a different newsreader for the time being. You might consider Bloglines, which is web-based so you can use it on any computer. Currently, I suspect the SharpReader problem has to do with how strict it is regarding charset encoding but that’s just a wild guess since I really haven’t had a chance to dig yet.