I’m so chuffed with the new Wu Wei (無爲) theme from WordPress.
Chuffed, chuffed, chuffed. So glad to be rid of that awful drop shadow nonsense.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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Finally a theme with a proper navbar for categories, and one that I, the CSS illiterate, can customize without breaking it too much.
Expect more tweaks as I figure this thing out…
I have long wanted to remove the sidebar on this blog. Today, the compulsion gnawed at me all day, and so I did.
Suddenly, the content takes center stage, and having nothing except these posts on the page is like a breath of fresh air.
I like it.
Because it becomes less about who writes the words or takes the image than what is written or captured, and because it represents the first step towards the eventuality that hangs in the air. To you, it may be merely a design tweak. A random one, even.
But if you know me well enough, you’ll know I don’t do random. Something is brewing on the horizon…
There’s something about this P2 theme that I like. Maybe it’s because the default font is Helvetica Neue, or maybe it’s the Twitter-inspired look and feel.
The P2 theme is really nice from a blog author’s point-of-view, with its AJAX-like live updates of posts and comments, and the post box up there at the top of the main body is really nifty.
But I was just alerted to the fact that this theme doesn’t scale well when viewed on the iPhone; you can’t double-tap to zoom in and out. Bugger.
The screengrab on the left shows how the P2 theme loads in Mobile Safari. It doesn’t reflow to fit the iPhone screen, and double-tapping to zoom out doesn’t work, unlike the Sandbox theme as seen in the screengrab on the right.
I’ll leave this on for a couple of days and see if the cannot-zoom-in-iPhone problem bugs me or not. Considering how I blog from only my iPhone these days, it probably will.
Fuck it; the inability to zoom is really annoying, so it’s back to the old theme. That, and the fact that all of you have made it loud and clear your dislike of the new theme. But I’m liking Helvetica Neue too much I’m slipping it into the previous layout.
Ok, business as usual…
Over the weekend, I made a number of long-overdue changes to the layout of this blog:
- I finally got rid of the “Older posts” navigation link that was above the first post on this page, something that had been bugging me for the longest time.
- I added a horizontal line below the last post on this page and before the “Older posts” navigation link to counter-balance the line at the top of this page, and also to better distingush where content ends.
- I also fixed the misaligned “Post comment” button below the comment input box in an individual post view.
- I added pretty quote marks for blockquotes. That was such a bitch to implement. Why the
<blockquote>HTML tag assumes a quote will not have line breaks is something I’ll never understand.
Because I am an idiot when it comes to CSS, those minor tweaks took me five hours! Five hours of trial-and-error and educated guessing, poking around line after line till I got the results I wanted. That I might as well have been reading Greek while perusing all the how-to tutorials out there only reaffirms the fact that I have no flair for coding. It’s just not my thing. But I had to make those changes simply because design matters.
I still have the bitter taste of bad CSS medicine in my mouth.
Yuck.
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34, male and very Cancerian. Often irascible, even if he is prescient to his emotions. Lives for the resonance of beautiful passages, cinematic magic and aural bliss. Dabbles in fiction writing, photography, sketching and daydreaming in his free time, even though he is paid to do just those in a professional capacity.
He is, in other words, quite a geek.
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