This weeks quest was almost all WordPress and website updates. It was a pretty complete makeover, from the foundation to the window dressing. As I previously mentioned, I wanted to explore WordPress and web theme design. I really liked my previous theme, Redoable by Dean Robinson, but it needed to be changed to handle WordPress 2.3, mainly due to the changes to categories and tagging. My choices were to either stay at WordPress 2.2, modify Redoable myself, or go in another direction. My experience with Redoable taught me a couple [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #10
I decided to take the plunge and dive into learning CSS. This is in the lead-up to upgrading this site to the latest WordPress, which I decided to do as part of a complete redesign of The OS Quest. So this week I deleted all the posts on my WordPress.org hosted blog and put up a few test posts and switched it to the Sandbox them. The Sandbox theme provides no CSS (or just a basic skin). While it will take longer I decided to start with no CSS and [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest is now Redoable
Over the past weekend I migrated this site to the Redoable theme by Dean Robinson. I wasn’t looking for a theme to redo this site, but I was browsing through some WordPress related blogs and came across the Redoable theme and it just caught my eye. The design was nice and clean and I liked it visually. But as I looked into it I realized it was more than just eye candy. It’s as well thought out technically as it is visually and it included a several features I was [...] Read the rest »
Website Update – Frustration then Satisfaction
[Updated Jan 20, 2007 - I no longer use Durable. I found that the drop down menus didn't work in Safari so I swapped it out. I went out to the WordPress Theme Tester for Durable and found they didn't work either.] If you’ve been here before you know the site has a new design. I haven’t been happy with the categories and the way static pages aren’t included in searches. So I spent most of the weekend looking at and testing options, with a side quest into a failed [...] Read the rest »
