Just Like (a) Human

So, right now, between looking for more puzzle pieces for the big puzzle that PayPerPost is running, and doing some actual work on a website for my host here (Hi, Dan!), I think I’m having a rather productive morning.

I’ve got the base of my template system pretty much laid, mimicking the old design, but in far more efficient code. No font tags, for example. Everything is determined by a stylesheet here, and once I get the content all ported the way I’d like it to be done, I can write the OTHER stylesheet for it to give Dan a choice to work with.

I enjoy doing semantic code like that. When I know I can go in, and bodyslam something with a single stylesheet change to get a drastically different look, I’m actually quite happy.

This is why WordPress works so well for so many people. Back in the day, before the full on template themes came up, we could simply fling a stylesheet at the core files, and have a different look. You still can do it with WordPress: Gutenberg (my old style with the column on the right side) was actually based on the older WordPress 1.2 (and 1.5) core template, simply modified enough to stand alone with the newer WordPress 2.0 style system.

So, if there’re no real interruptions, I should easily finish the redesign for Dan today, and this pleases me.
Back to work.