Poll time!
Yes, I’ve been busy since my last post. Annexes of the site have been opened at livejournal and wordpress.com, because it’s easier for people to find stuff if it’s on the same domain as them, and it’s not like wordpressers care about livejournal stuff (and vice versa).
I’m planning on shifting the main site over to textpattern when their next release comes out, so it seems a good time to do a survey on what other services you’re using and would like me to develop for.
No Wordpress or MT/Typepad: if I do anything for them they’ll be on the satellite sites, the Six Apart styles site and the WP themes site. If you have any other suggestions, please pop them in the comments. Thanks!
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20/08/06
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competition entries!
Another protracted absence, but a couple of competition entries to make up for it. First up, two new wordpress themes:
I say ‘new’, but smotiau is really just treacle jazzed up for 2.0 with new graphics and theme options. If pink spots aren’t your thing, you can switch it to blue, green, lilac or grey instead. It doesn’t play well with the theme switcher because you have to tell it what colours to use on the admin side, so I thought I’d better put it up here for download.
Blook is a little bit different. It’s for all those aspiring authors out there who want to write a book online and need their blog to start at the beginning and end at the end. Yes, Nanowrimoers, I’m looking at you. As usual, graphics have been kept to a minimum, and there’s a separate stylesheet to make it a bit easier to change the colours and images to suit your masterpiece. It’s a specialist theme, but I think there are people who’ll find a use for it.
Tropical Dream, meanwhile, was designed for the Six Apart style contest. Yes, at last I am doing something for livejournal. There are more of these on the way, and I’m planning to make a compatible wordpress theme too.
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15/05/06
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rebooted
We’re back, all shiny and new. Apart from the cosmetic stuff, here’s some of the changes you may notice:
- Templates are now generated with Francey’s Crappymatic, ineptly hacked about a bit by me. Diaryland, diary-x, blogger, MT, wordpress (now much more theme-friendly) and xanga templates are still being served up, along with a ‘generic’ option for everyone else to add their own variables. b2 support has been replaced by textpattern; b2 has been deprecated for years now, whereas textpattern is still in an active (albeit sometimes sluggish) state of development. Tabulas and signmyguestbook continue to be covered by ‘how-to’ pages.
- Old templates are gone. Some of them had been knocking around for nearly three years and deserved a rest. A couple of my favourites may return at some later date, but to be honest I’m more excited by the prospect of filling the place with new ones
- Template archives should work much better now. Clicking on the service name will take you to a menu of all available templates, rather than just the most recent ones
Still on the to-do list:
- fixing the bugs you will find for me as soon as you start requesting templates. (I spent two weeks last month on holiday and another week being sick. It didn’t leave a lot of time for beta-testing.)
- restoration of the auto-submit feature for diaryland templates. I know this was popular, so I’ll make every effort to get it back, bearing in mind that PHP hates me.
- figuring out whether the old help pages actually contribute anything to the sum of blog template knowledge.
- stuff for livejournal. One day. Soon.
- more templates! yay!
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01/11/05
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