Nov
30
I’ve not posted anything for a while, the reason for that – I’ve been busy.
I just feel the need to post now because I’m a fool. I’ve spent about 3 days in total trying to work out why my menus weren’t working in a new WordPress theme that I’m writing. The problem as in most cases is user error. When trying to check if a pages parent ID matched a specific ID, I used an equals sign (=) instead of a double equals sign (==) the result meant that I was assigning each page with a parent ID of 4 resulting in every page having the menu which should have only appeared on pages with a parent ID of 4. I’m not impressed, I had to go through the code a line at a time removing each line in turn until I found the affected code.
At least with this issue sorted I can now crack on with writing all the menus so that hopefully the new site can go live soon.
HA-HA, nasty buggers them symbols. n its a bugger to track down the one missing or extra symbol that’s causing your problems
I once spent 5hours to track down a rogue ;
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just doesn’t work
Well now its sorted I’m flying again. You really need to do some work on your blog. I know you’ve done the work once already but you should be able to do it even faster now.
yes I know, but that’s work n I do enough of that at work, might do some more at the weekend, might try to get that heading colour right this time too.
well least its easy to make pages n stuff, none of that nasty coding yet. Theres a post in the forum about it, can post design tips n stuff to it, wanna find the no to software patents button thing to go with my hacker and get firefox ones
Sadly those crappy buttons are some of the first things I’d delete!
well they do look a bit out of place, maybe I’ll just colour them in
Before you even do anything in wordpress you need to think about the design/layout. You should create a template using plain html and css. Once the design is complete then you should convert it to wordpress. If you just start of with a rather average template and just hack away at it with no particular clear vision then it will look like a dogs dinner.
did you see my last home made template? any of the previous incarnations of my site?
I’m first to admit I’m not an artist, I’m going to change a few colours here n there that keep to the theme but nothing major. basically replacing some of the greys with blues, n I think I can safely throw a red or 2 in.
ok then to put it another way, if all your doing is changing colours, then couldn’t you have picked a better starting theme in the first place!
I liked the lightning at the top, but as its so easy to change themes I might randomly change every other day or something