Jun 25
JasonTheme, jQuery jQuery, WordPress
WPOS7 Screenshot
So I have been plugging away at creating my OS7 theme.. I previously stated that IE8 sucked completely and I have to take that back. It doesn’t suck completely.. infact, it sucks a lot less than I realized..
I found that I was using IE8 in “quirks mode” and of course it behaved quirky. My main question is; What the hell is the point of quirks mode?! “Here have our browser in a mode that is completely broken.” I just don’t get it.. I guess quirks mode is basically IE6 as they seem to render similarly.. (I have IE6 on my laptop still for testing purposes..) If that’s the case it couldn’t be better named..
Apparently since I had a misspelling (or something) in my doctype it defaulted to quirksmode.. Once I found that I was in the wrong mode, found out why and fixed it, I started to test my new UI in IE7 and IE8.. It actually works!! Ever so minor bug in IE7, but its hardly worth mentioning.. IE8 works fine, but a little slow. er.. in fact, a lot slow.. IE8 ain’t zippy at all.. More
Jun 18
JasonRSoW.com, Theme, jQuery jQuery, Theme, WordPress
WordPress OS7 Theme
So I have been using Windows 7 for a while now and I really do like it. It’s no Snow Lepoard but it’s what I have.. heh Honestly, its not bad at all.. I also have been using wordpress for a goodly while with the same theme “Microblue” a theme I created a year ago.
I’m getting bored with Microblue so its time for a change and I thought it would be fun to combine Windows 7′s look and feel into a wordpress theme. This lead me down the road that I had started with my jQuery Windows post and posed an important question;
Do I implement a windows manager within a webpage? God what a pain in the ass..
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Jun 28
JasonJS/CSS Etc, WordPress ipb, joomla, Theme, WordPress, wpmu
Well as some of you know I have been working on a joint WordPress MU and Invision Power Board theme based on the joomla theme Chromatophore.. I thought I would give an update — It’s going well all things considered, but its taking me a little longer than I had for seen to get the color chooser logic working correctly.
You can see my progress here:
http://info.rsow.com/projects/fffredesign/
I’ve run into some interesting javascript foibles that I have had to deal with and have also taken this opportunity to start on my own javascript toolbox.
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Jun 24
JasonDev Diary ipb, joomla, Theme, WordPress, wpmu
My new project requires a common theme across both WordPress (and thus WordPress MU) and Invision Power Board. No small order.
To that end I have decided to convert (or redesign) the Chromatophore Joomla theme into a combined wordpress / invision power board theme. I decided to go with this look because I very much appreciate what the folks over at RocketTheme did with the Chromatophore theme. To be honest if I were using Joomla I’d buy it, but since I’m not I must create my own.
Instead of just cutting and pasting their html, js, css, and images into an already created wordpress template I have decided to recreate the theme from what I see alone. Without looking at their source — at all. (So far I’ve only peaked a couple times)
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Jun 22
JasonRandomStrings captcha, WordPress, wpmu
So I got the WordPress MU blog system up and running YESTERDAY. And today I wake up to some spam in the form of a bot that created a “wow gold farmer” blog. It was completely random crap and went a pretty long way towards detailing my need of some form of bot protection.
I’m stunned that I got botted so soon after putting it up, more over on domains that didn’t exist until yesterday. BUT likely due to my post of yesterday which told the bots where to go — woops. A solution was required and fast! More
Jun 21
JasonWordPress blog, Fan Films, Forum, WordPress
Well per my post on the 18th I have gotten wordpress mu up and running on my forum server. Currently the urls used to access that system are;
Only the first one works 100% correctly right now. My virtual hosts file and dns aren’t quite syncing up correctly — should be fixed eventually.
By that, you should take this as a very serious effort on my part. I want this to be a success. The next thing I must do is figure out how to correctly style the MU entry page such that it’s a self explainitory advertisement of what it does, and such that it incorporates content from the various other blogs. More
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