April 2007 Archives

That wasn't so bad after all. I got StyleCatcher working, found the most barebones template I could find, and punched in some sidebar modules. I've also opened up commenting again, although I couldn't quite figure out how to make the Akismet plugin automatically queue spam comments. (Or at least I'm not sure that it's working yet.

Anyway, not too bad. Might need to tighten up the padding on the post footers just a hair, though.

I really want to redesign this site, as I really don't have time to blog here since launching Dethroner. I'd instead like to start using this as a holding area for clips, story ideas, and projects, not unlike what Rob's done with Susurrations. I'd move it over to Wordpress (although I still prefer MT's posting interface), but I have several sites here running on MT that I don't have any desire to port, so MT it is.

I am shocked how poor the choice is out there for free MT templates, however. Even just multi-columned layouts are few and far between. I may have to break out the ol' CSS (lack of) skills, which is terrifying, but good practice for upcoming Dethroner tweaks that will need to be made. (And for which I can nary afford to hire a real designer.)

Redesigning this site also gives me an opportunity to play with Panic's new "Coda" web application for OS X, which is on a 14-day sampleware lock, giving me a nice motivating time limit, too.