omgwtf!

Yeah. So the posts are pretty long sometimes. I know. I dont like the way it looks, either. Too much goddamn scrolling. In two weeks this will be The Longest Page On Teh Intarweb ™.

As I’ve mentioned, I’m currently working through a walkthrough and learning stuff as I go. I am actually doing it, though, so even though nothing has yet changed on the outside, there is activity behind the curtain. Continue to pay no attention that that man back there. Bad dog.

I am hoping that as early as this evening I can make a couple of changes to the page. I want to take away some of the things that are in that sidebar (most of the Meta stuff, for exaxmple) and replace them with things that should rightfully be there, such as links to other sites, a clickable archive calendar, the proper Meta selections I wish to make available, including a working RSS link (they dont work for me, but apparently others can subscribe to it just fine), and a few other things. This won’t go in all at once but it’s stuff that will happen as the page design moves forward.

One of the major changes will be that each entry will be truncated at a certain length on the main page, and youll be able to click a link to view the entire entry, so that you can see more entries at once on the main page and it won’t scroll for three quarters of a mile before you get to the end. It’s driving me crazy, but patience is the Jedi way, and I make a pretty shit Jedi in that regard right now, lemme tell you.

Yeah, I thought Episode III was pretty good. Not great, but that’s a discussion for another topic. I have to see it a couple more times before I feel that I can review it.

I have so far made Herculian efforts as far as resisting the extreme temptation to mess around with templates other folks have created just because they look better than this crappy default skin and some of them contain the features I want on my own page. I’m trying not to do that because first of all, I know that if I start messing with it now, shit will break and I’ll be screwed because I dont know a lot about WordPress yet, and if it breaks, I can’t really fix it without a lot of Tums on hand.

I also don’t want to change it until I am able to put up my own design because I want to create it myself, instead of using someone else’s design, and if I do change it to something I think is more appealing, I will lose much of the impetus to customize it myself and it will stay there forever, mocking my laziness. Right in the face.

So no using other people’s customizations. Imma do it myself.

Just remember that things might break when you least expect it, like the RSS syndication feed. Hopefully they’ll be fixed in short order, though.

Hopefully.