So, after some tinkering, I ended up not using the theme I had mentioned last time. I decided I really liked the idea of a three-column layout. I found one called Munch 1.0. A change of the header image (the new one came from www.stockvault.net), a few tweaks to the code (moving the menu down so it fits the image better, and disabling the mouseover titles) and I think it looks much better. There’s still more small tweaks but the bulk of the work is done…. which means that the blog pages are now the default for the site.
Can’t find something? Let me know.
I finally found a WordPress theme I liked enough to base the site on - missunderstood 0.91. There will probably be some more tweaks to the pages here within the blog before I make the blog homepage into the site homepage. I’m working on reconstructing the navigation pages into the blog as well (see the ‘exit guides‘ page for an example) and will probably use this style sheet site-wide eventually.
I’ve also stolen another page from Kurumi and am creating town pages for the Mass Route Log. I started with Worcester. Not much to it yet, but it’s the sort of thing I can do here and there.
Finally got around to getting the road photos back up… via flickr.
Two ways to get to them - road photos or the individual MA roads pages. (I won’t bother listing all the individual roadp ages - there’s about 30 or so and to be honest, I’m lazy like that.)
If you tried to access anything here over the past few weeks, you might have noticed some problems.
The quick version? I contemplated not renewing my webhosting. Nothing against the new host (OCS Solutions); they’ve been great. But I just wasn’t sure I wanted to spend the money considering how little I’ve actually done with the site.
Then I changed my mind. Even if I’m not updating as much as I want/should, I still enjoy having the space to mess around with. I am, however, outsourcing stuff that’s done better elsewhere. The road pictures are probably going to flickr. All mail handling is through Google Apps. Other stuff will go where it goes.
I expect I’ll try my hand at another redesign of the home page. There’s plenty of software I can use to make some changes here.
If you’re looking for something and get a page not found error… I’m moving to a new webhost. Most of the popular stuff will come back in one form or another fairly soon. I kept the blog and roads pages up since they tend to drive most of the traffic here.
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