Web Developer
I’ve brought back my three favourite themes from the pre-wordpress 2.0 days.
As always, available on the customise page.
These are legacy themes, if they don’t work in your browser on your system, I don’t really care
Here’s a new theme for my website that I’ve been working on for the past few days. It’s available by clicking on Customise, and then selecting Dragon2009.
Unfortunately due to upgrading to the latest Zenphoto a while back, themes aren’t carried over any more, so when you go to the Art page(s) it will revert back to Breeze2008. Hopefully I can get that fixed up this weekend.
There aren’t really any new features built specifically in to this design except for the fact that it’s fluid width, so people with widescreens won’t get 5 square kilometres of white space on each side when looking at the site.
I’ve been meaning to port some of the old themes over but most of my time is taken up by Co-Opp and work.
Update: Fixed the theme-not-carrying-over-to-the-art-gallery bug. It was an issue with the new(ish) version of the theme-switcher plugin that was defining the cookie path as /blog/ rather than /.
Back in August I blogged about something that really pisses me off: When applications install in to your C drive regardless of where you tell it to install.
Another thing that is similar and just as heinous is when you download a program, run the installer and then the installer downloads another installer. Again.
If this isn’t the installer, what is it? An installer for the installer? Redundant much?
I could give a flying fuck if you want me to have the latest version. Create an auto-updater for your software if you want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. I downloaded the setup file because I wanted it to be accessible from anywhere. If I knew this was just going to be a proxy for the real setup I would have just run it from my temp files after it had finished downloading. I chose to save the file so I could use it anywhere and any time. Now I need to be attached to the internet just to install your stupid browser that nobody takes seriously anyway. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, this is Google after all, not exactly king of the software realm. Unfortunately though, they aren’t the only ones that do this.
Dear developers: Stop it. Just stop it. It’s not clever. It’s not cool. It’s stupid and you’re stupid for thinking it’s any good. Just quit it.




