SO I guess I’ve pretty much finished the layout. Just need to re-add my static content again. The sidebar widgets are bloody fantastic, you just drag your sidebar items where you want them. I also found a nice little menu plugin which allowed me to make the navigation menu at the top of the sidebar. Pretty happy with how smoothly it all happened, got 98% of the side done within a day… Ok so it’s 1am, but close enought.

So I’ve decided to vamp up my site a bit. I’ve always used wordpress but previously I have been using my own layout and grabbing data my own way without using themes or any plugins. This time I’ve fully integrated Wordpress on my site allowing me to customise my sidebars easier, add plugins and generally make things a bit easier. I’ve spent most of my time trying to work out how to develop a template from scratch. I Followed a tutorial from Cyberhackz I think it’s mildly outdated but it explains very well how wordpress themes are segmented. I’ve pretty much finished it, I just need to mess more with the CSS to get it right. Then I’m going to try and integrate my custom scripts as Wordpress plugins. As you can see I’ve stuck with the same basic layout, but with a slightly cleaner look. Should be a lot less cluttered when I’m finished with it.

I updated choonstats and am using a different Winamp plugin, it now posts song data from iTunes DRMed music (yes there is a plugin to play iTunes DRMed music for Winamp).

Listening to a lot of the new Muse album at the moment, bitchen album. Still a lot of good hard stuff along with the melodic chillin tunes, very keen.

Hmm well it seems the attribute I was using to determine what was an attachment and what wasn’t with my moblog script doesn’t exist in these new fandangle phones, so I had to do some messing around. Currently it’s a bandaid, waiting to fall off and cause serious issues, but you know what…. meh.

As you can see the camera on my new phone is a pretty darn good improvement, it feels like a camera when I’m using it, I can feel it focusing when I prepare for a shot, and as you can see the macro capabilities are pretty bitchen. It will be good to see how the light goes on a night on the piss. Don’t get too use to those high res shots though, they are expensive to send.

Wow look I upgraded to Wordpress 1.5.2, can’t you tell? Yeah neither can I. Ooh look nice new valid XHTML/CSS and RSS buttons at the bottom. And there’s now pages so you can browse through my old posts.

Go Soccerooos