habitually probing generalist

I had high hopes of doing some serious rewriting tonight based on the input of some very special people. But despite realizing yesterday that I was starting to feel physically better, tonight when I got home it was back to feeling very poorly. Oh well.

I am sure I will get over it in time, but I really do not like search engines today. For one thing, commentary should not rank higher than the the actual work—especially if a current work—in my opinion. ‘Nuff said for now.

I did update the theme I use (Cutline) for my blog this morning. The guy who wrote it—Chris Pearson—is simply awesome. He is more than helpful to the inexperienced; it is only the super geek that wants too much and maybe ought to do it for “himself” that he gently brushes off. I fall somewhere in the middle—lower middle perhaps—so am safe for now.

He rewrote the theme from the ground up and made it really easy to put all our custom css in one place so that future upgrades go seamlessly. He is extremely responsive when it comes to questions. In fact, he is the opposite of what Karen Schneider is discussing here.

I’m particularly thrilled about the tagline now showing up under the header at the top of the page! Now I just have to style it a bit. I was not looking forward to trying to figure out how to make that show up myself in all of WordPress’ php weirdness.

Anyway, I got a few minor css tweaks working this morning, but then realized I broke the random headers. Turns out I did need the updated random header file. But worse, I overwrote the earlier, modified one without thinking about it. Anyway, this evening I got the random header file updated and random headers are back.

I noticed a comment on his blog post about the random header generator about the new header file not calling the custom css. Well, yes, that’s true. My css mods are gone. I tried what the previous commenter suggested and that restored my css mods and broke most everything else. So I’ve commented and I’ll bet Chris is working on it right now.

My mods are pretty simple, although I do want them back. And I’m definitely looking forward to being able to style other things on my own, all in one place.

So despite feeling a bit under the weather again, I am pretty stoked about being able to easily do the above. Now if only the above above was easy. And search engines be damned! Even if they are only doing what they are supposed to do.

Update: I see I broke my Contact form, too. Dangit! And I “knew” something was missing but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Not a problem; as in I should be able to fix it when I get a few minutes. Just means I overwrote something else yesterday morn. I am trying to do a better job of recording these little mods all in one place so I can avoid that in the future.