New Fitzsimmons.ca blag up and running

March 22nd, 2008 at 15:34

2008/03/21 13:17: nightm4re> also get a blag

And here we are. A few months ago, I asked sponge if he would be nice enough to hack me up a webdesign for fitzsimmons.ca, and surprisingly enough, he actually bothered to do it. So, finally with the right moviation from m4re’s comment, I set forth to finally turn fitzsimmons.ca from a random file dump into a “real website”. For those that care (0), the file dump is still available (albiet significantly cleaned up) at http://fitzsimmons.ca/stuff/. I spent about 30 minutes searching for blog software and quickly settled on wordpress, due to apathy. I expected that designing a theme for it would be sheer agony, but it only turned out to be fairly painful. Yay. Then again, I didn’t actually do any of the hard work. I just took sponge’s design, fucked with the colours, chopped it into pieces, and told wordpress where to shove the content. Of course, shoving content into things isn’t nearly as easy as it sounds when how to do that is compeltely undocumented. Either that or the documentation is impossible to find, which is effectively the same thing. So again I just learned by example - the two default themes provided with wordpress were simple enough for me to decipher that I could at least make mine work. What I’ve got now is mostly incomplete - as far as I know I have no support whatsoever for things like archiving or tags or categories. But, since I also don’t really care about any of those things (yet), I’ve decided to not expend any more effort with this webdesign business until I absolutely have to.

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