Since the last post, I’ve finished the migration of this site from Textpattern and Gallery to WordPress and Piwigo. Overall, the process went smoothly, but naturally there were some hitches. Once I figured out the Fidelity theme’s options and how content was chosen for its’ various components, I needed to …
It’s been almost six years since I’ve posted here. For 2015, I’ve revamped the site. Both the theme and the back end are new. I’ve moved from the venerable Textpattern to WordPress for the CMS portion of the site. This was done for a couple of reasons: First, rebrands of …
My site style grabs a new image from my Gallery every hour to use in the header. In the past, I used a hacked version of the block_random.php from Gallery 1, which output what I needed to files which are then read in by the CSS. Unfortunately, the new random image block in Gallery2 doesn’t behave the same way.
Site Fixed I spent a few hours Monday night to Tuesday morning to finally fix the layout of the site. Many moons ago, I thought I had it fixed , but it turns out that I didn’t have the columns sticking to the bottom of the screen still. After rigorous …
As opposed to generating a new masthead imageset every visit, I decided to generate image files every hour. This will result in less server load, but more importantly, will fix the first-visit race condition I was seeing in most browsers. Before, the CSS file was spawning a request for the …
Well, I’ve finally taken the plunge and revamped the site for the first time in, er, at least a year. Notably, the picture above, which smears in four directions, is chosen randomly from my gallery, and then munged around with php and its’ gd extensions to pick a random square …
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