Over the Weekend
If you visited Foreword over the weekend, you’d have noticed that everything was messed up around here; I took down the templates and CSS to reinstall the native Movable Type 3.2 stuff (part of the problem with the spam being so successful in invading the site is my outdated MT 2.x code) and got part way through it when problems arose — and, well, we wound up here.
The new look was triggered by finally, finally, getting the logo to somewhere I like it Friday night:
I was busy on clients’ projects on Saturday, but sat down yesterday morning to put together the look I wanted for this page, the code from MT for 3.2, comments, and the new javascript (they’d changed significantly), and some general fixes I’d been meaning to get to for a while.
What you’re seeing is only part of that — most of the visuals are here, but none on the non-blog portions of the site, and still tweaking left and right no matter what. Many of the commenting features work, but it’s going to be an ongoing process through Monday and into Monday night at the earliest — because the new “features” simply didn’t work as advertised out of the box and I’m going to have to write everything from scratch. Not a bad thing, but not the time I’d budgeted for…!
Please, thanks once again for your patience. I need to take a few hours’ nap, and then finish and get something to a client. Be back on the site later today. In the meantime, don’t hesitate to tell me about what doesn’t work, and especially how things look on a PC. (Especially whether things line up.) Thank you.
P.S. The comment preview is wonky. It shows the text, but only again in the box below (in case you want to post or make changes) some of the time. Huh? Try, but perhaps just “post” is best for now.…
P.P.S. I‘ve postponed Todd’s entry until at least this evening, when the comments are working properly, instead of the hit-or-miss it seems to be right now. No good asking a question if you can’t get a reply without frustrating people in the process; we don’t need that on a Monday morning.
Comments:
The text areas don’t line up in Safari!
How does it look for you Internet Explorer folks?
—Giles
(Testing the anonymous commenting.)
Looks wonderful in Firefox. The blog has a warm, cozy, curl up with a book feel. Nicely done. Compliments the logo well and I like your banner. :)
Thanks…!!
More planned, just gotta get to it. Heheh.