Testing Worlds.
This has a lot of weight attached to it. But so does this blog. A lot of testing of different worlds has been happening as of late, I hope all of it gets documented…to some extent. To be honest, I’m not really sure what I should be doing with this thing, or even HOW I want to do it. I guess it will be a learning experience.
First thing: I’m trying to do more and think less this year. I’ve found that it keeps me from acting on the things I want to do. I could sit all day and think about how I want to do something or they way I want it to work, but I’ll never actually get around to completing it because I’m never satisfied in my head.
Which is dumb.
So first thing I just “did”? Make the logo and style this blog. Granted, I had a lot of moral support from the other author on this blog. But hey, I did something. Was a bit of a learning curve, since I don’t do this often. Usually at work, we either just design and let a developer handle it, or just buy a theme with all the bells and whistles and make things look nice.
With this little test world, I’m just cracking into the default theme and seeing what I can do with it—so maybe the overall look of the site will change over time. Maybe it won’t. Let’s see how lazy I get.
Simplicity was the goal, though. Black + white. Simple logo. No clutter. No extraneous pages—though, you could probably argue the “About” page is just that. And best of all, no real goal. Other than of course, writing.
I managed to get a reading progress indicator to work on the pages, but now it’s on ALL the pages, which is unnecessary. That took a bit of work though. A lot of reading, but mostly just copy and paste with a little CSS change, because fuck if I can understand JQuery. Maybe some day. But Sunday was not the day. Or today. And probably not anytime in the near future, but maybe later this year.
But when I say copy and paste, I mean Copy and Paste. I moved that jquery and html tag all over the fucking place in all the damn php files until I got it to work properly and how I wanted to. And you know what would have saved me a shit ton of time? Reading the fucking comments in the code. So maybe the next item on my list of things to change this year is to read more carefully.
Anyway, I guess this was a success. I got it up and running. And now I’ve add a post to it. Though that progress reading indicator was very close to being a failure. But it was good learning, either way.
P.S. I’m using this post to style block quotes. Maybe I can get them to not look so fucking lame.