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We’re now 20% less broken (the site that is)

My I’ve been busy, haven’t even had time to just sit down and post.
Last week was rough, what with that whole harassment unpleasantness. I haven’t quite gotten back into the swing of things, and of course that means that there is a bunch of work now ahead of me. Why oh why doesn’t the bad [...]

See Sicko!

I don’t think I can formulate real sentences about how good this movie is. All I can do is try to communicate the fact that I have a very strong feeling that it’s very, very important, and I’m not even American.

*Update: There’s a very nice review here.
On a side note, sorry for the lack of [...]

More maintenance

Sorry for all these boring posts, but I thought I’d better make note of what I’m doing before I actually do it just in case. The server’s running nice and snappy but notification emails still aren’t being sent by WordPress and they haven’t been for 2 or three versions now. I’m going to do a [...]

Temporary interuption of service

I’ve been finding the site very sluggish for a while. I’m going to try a couple of things to see if it fixes it. One of these things might involve a fresh install of wordpress. Apologies in advance if everything’s wonky for a bit here.
Edit: It’s fixed! I spoke with my host and they found [...]

Time to upgrade again!

Wordpress 2.2 just dropped so it’s time to upgrade again! I’m excited because this one has widget support built right in so I’ll be running at least one plugin lighter.
I could just wait until fantastico has the update and then do it automatically, but I’m kinda in the mood to do some cleaning up [...]

There may be a better way

As I worked on this site I started thinking about getting together with a couple of folks and developing a new Wordpress theme with some built in functionality for various plugins and whatnot that might be useful to artists building portfolio sites. I was sorta inspired by the stuff going on at Awsom.com and thought [...]

Is she fast enough for ya?

I’ve been trying to optimize the site as much as I can (best to try to keep on top of it as I go instead of all at once at the very end of developement) but I can’t quite tell if it’s doing any good. My internet service provider has been what I like to [...]

I hope a little knowledge isn’t a bad thing

Now that I kind of half-arsed know what I’m doing with this stuff, I’m endeavoring to add a proper CSS nav menu to the Forums that will better match the rest of the site. Not really rocket science but at my current skill level one can’t be too carefull. I’ve disabled the link to the [...]

Mucking around with themes again

Just thought I’d say so just in case things look a little rough while I’m messing around. Cheers!
Edit: Still not quite there, I’m playing with the colour scheme still, as well as the navbar placement. I’m not sure if I’ve coded the placement properly but at least the site is navigable.

Hurrah for Etsy mini!

I’ve been going nuts trying to find a way to make my Etsy items appear on a page in the site using plugins and rss, but now I don’t have to! Etsy has this new “Etsy mini” feature that generates code that you can put into your site. First I tried entering the javascript version [...]