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I am never happy

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I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but the site has been jumbled up a bit for the past couple days. If you recall reading this post I wrote a few days ago, I was going to try and widen up the theme. Well the code generated from the WordPress Theme Generator is really messy and hard to understand; I was lucky to figure out as much of it as I did when I worked on the Vega DevBlog and when I updated the current Mekworx theme. I tried a bunch of things but the css file is just setup really weird…or I’m just too dumb :P

Well actually, I did a bit of cram learning Thursday from this lovely guide I found on the interhole. Most of the time when I want to quickly edit something that I have very little to no working knowledge of, I rely on trial and error. That’s what I did for this theme and for the theme that the Vega DevBlog uses. However, after working through this awesome guide, I have a bit more knowledge of how some of this stuff works; php, css, and wordpress themes in general. If your interested in this stuff, then I highly recommend you take a few hours to check that wonderfully written guide out.

So far I have a from-scratch skeleton WordPress theme done…as in I finished up writing up all of the php code (I can’t believe I just typed that…). The thing that remains is the thing that happens to be the bulk of the work though. I’ve still got to style the layout. So basically I have got to polish up my css and make some graphics. I’ve tried a few things here and there but so far I haven’t figured out the look yet (not to mention it’s a tad frustrating at times). The ideas I’ve attempted but failed at so far include a cobalt/burnt orange theme, a blue/gray theme, and a mostly dark blue theme (like this one). But I’ve got a couple more ideas for a simple and clean look that will, hopefully, reflect my tastes and also make me happy. Atleast at this point, though, I’ve got it at the width I wanted from the very beginning :sun:

So if all goes well (and if I can try to find a bit more free time) I should have a small surprise for the site in the coming days. And then maybe I can try and get that blasted design page reorganized and updated sometime soon -_^

Mekworx needs to fatten up

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The Mekworx theme that I made (with lots of help and trial/error) still pleases me. Except for one thing: it’s too narrow. I wanted it to be wider than it is now but I couldn’t really figure it out during my last fit of theme tweaking. Well I’m just making this post to say that I will be looking into this issue in the coming days. So if the site looked f’d up or if it’s using the default wordpress theme, then that’s why.

WordPress 2.8.4

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Geez, they’ve been updating WordPress a bunch lately. Anywho, Mekworx is now running 2.8.4 :sun: