CSS is great (this time)
I always read about CSS being great because you could just change your site’s design without touching a single HTML file. I didn’t think it could be done, not without touching at least some HTML, but lo-and-behold… I did it (only after 5+ years of doing this…)! I changed my design across 3 separate apps – phpBB, dokuwiki, and my main site by just changing the images, sizes, and positioning in my main styles.css. Now that was cool. And it worked perfectly. I’m glad I properly went through and did the main styles properly. Now only if it would work flawlessly in IE all the time (Achilles Heel)
Obviously the index page changed, since I’m not going to use Moveable Type anymore, even though I really liked the ability to create multiple blogs with one installation. That’s the one thing I miss with WordPress. I still have a few sites running under Moveable Type, so I can’t phase it out just yet… maybe soon. It would be a pain to swap things out. It was nice to create one set of users and give them permissions to one blog or another. Made things easy, since it was all in one place, didn’t have too much to keep track of. It also used one database, and stored the content in flat-files. I’ll have to find a WordPress plugin which does that (which I’m sure there is). I am also going to cross-post phpVMS news here, and have it shown on the phpVMS site based on the category. Hmm…ideas for a new blog post and something to play with there. For now, I’m going to post up some GD code I wrote to create forum signatures, so messing with sizes and manipulating text. I may write that up for next week.
I’m going to be playing with SEO sometime soon, check out some good tricks and ideas to move phpVMS up to the top of search results. It’s really maturing to the point where I want to take over the world. Muahahaha…
