Archive for the 'wordpress' Category

It is easy, I am blog­ging while wait­ing for my lunch. But it also has a few chal­lenges, word­press is not pretty or intu­it­ive on IE on WM5, the key­stroke com­bin­a­tions to enter HTML is pain­ful, cut­ting and past­ing from other win­dows dif­fi­cult, but it can be done, so expect more mob­log­gig from me.

Now fixed

I just changed hosts and the rewrit­ing of URLs for Word­Press stopped work­ing. I assumed a .htac­cess or mod_rewrite where prob­lem, but I have not had any prob­lems with the other five blogs that I have set up on via Reseller Zoom account. So after scratch­ing my head this morn­ing. I got home, upgraded my ver­sion of Word­Press to the latest ver­sion and that fixed the problem.

Some people who listen to pod­cast or read the tran­script (both avail­able soon) of my present­a­tion on Access­ib­il­ity Law in Aus­tralia to the Perth Web Stand­ards Group may think I was down­play­ing the import­ance of access­ib­il­ity law (the Dis­ab­il­ity Dis­crim­in­a­tion Act 1992) in Aus­tralia. That was not my inten­tion, what I wanted to do was reflect the cur­rent situation.

Very few people make com­plaints about web­site access­ib­il­ity in Australia…

If you haven’t noticed this site has had a CSS reboot and a little tweak­ing of the Word­Press tem­plates. It is a par­tially a proof of concept (or fail­ure in concept if you use a Mac) and very much a work in pro­gress. Let me know if find any prob­lems and please stretch the pages by vary­ing your browser width (and the header still looks good at 300% @ 3000 pixels).

Go visit CSS Reboot and you can vote for me and any of the other 1500 rebooters.

tagged css­reboot css reboot elastic design

Help­ing set up a web site for the Peel Dis­tricts Moun­tain Bike Club, … the club also wanted a forum, …, I chose phpBB, easy to install and get­ting run­ning with a heap of tem­plates to choose from. Everything was run­ning smoothly until it came time to cus­tom­ise the forum and web­site to look seam­less. Every phpBB tem­plate I looked at was table based. Which is a prob­lem for me:…

The actual upgrade was quick and pain­less, the pain­ful bit was try­ing to sort out some IE inter­pret­a­tions of my CSS. Unlikely it was the upgrade to WP2 that caused the prob­lem, it was more likely the fact that I do not always check my changes in IE, today was the exception.

I have found a solu­tion to prob­lem with Word­Press 2.0 doing con­vert­ing uni­code such as > into >. It is turn off the rich text editor and the auto­mat­ic­ally cor­rect­ing HTML options in the pro­file sec­tion and make sure you select apply. Unfor­tu­nately with Safari 1.3 you get no visual clues as to whether the rich text editor is on or off…

Word­Press 2.0 has some good fea­tures, the qual­ity of the HTML it pumps has improved and the rich text editor with it’s pop up tinyMCE html source editor is just the thing a hand coder like me adores. How­ever, there are also a couple of concerns.

Looks like I have found what I will be doing over the four day Xmas break, giv­ing Word­Press 2.0 Release Candidate3 a spin.

Got poin­ted to the Per­form­an­cing for exten­sion Fire­fox which makes blog­ging easy from within Fire­fox. Just giv­ing it a spin and see how it goes.  Easy to set up for Word­Press and looks easy to use, only con­cern is how much will appear in the sum­mary sec­tion on the home page.