It’s been a terribly long time since I made any updates to the site. A lot of things happened including a trip, an impending move to a new apartment (which implies lots of packing), a decent spot of work, and a major theme crisis. I wasn’t just lazy I was busy and because this is a one chick show, I had no one to pinch it.

The good news is that the theme crisis is over. I have found a great theme called xMark. My old theme was nice but there were a few things that bothered me about it after I had some time to spend with it. It wasn’t fluid and did not degrade gracefully when placed in a very small or oddly sized window. These things just make a theme less usable. I’m not a usability freak by any means but if it bothered me it’s going to drive people with sensory differences absolutely nuts. I also got tired of the header image thing even though I had one of my own up there. I wanted a theme that was lighter and loaded quicker. xMark accomplishes both of these things.

If you see a lot of layout changes over a very short period of time, do not freak out. It’s just me mucking with the CSS which I tend to do. Expect slight changes to the look and feel and expect more posts in the near future.

Yeah. More changes. I am trying to clean up the site, make it more functional, make the browsing experience more pleasurable, and learn Wordpress all at the same time. Mostly I’m leaning on Jason for help with plugins and scripts and stuff like that. I think he likes it, well he’s not as burned out on this crap as I am. I dealt with MT for a few years and this is my first blog endeavor outside the MT world since I mucked with LiveJournal and some other server-side scripts. I’m impressed with Wordpress, but the documentation is pathetic for a lot of the plugins. I don’t think that the developers take as much pride in their work as the developers did in the MT community when I was still actively using it. There was more of an effort for documentation and communication. My biggest wish for the Wordpress community is that they install a real threaded bulletin board system for their users. Finding answers to my questions and posting things in the right place would be a lot easier if a real forum was installed.

I also think the Wordpress community could stand to start a plugin/hack site like the MT Plugins site, where things are posted when they’re updated and users can help each other with problems. Most of what I miss about MT relates to the community, but WP is young yet so things will hopefully change for the better.