News & Updates

I’m still not happy with the site – as always, I’m my worst critic. I’m working on a redesign currently – and quite looking forward to it. That said one of my intentions was to have a scrolling menu that follows the user as they read – I can likely do this in the CSS or even a jQuery option, but the latter would break given the use of something like NoScript. In addition to that, if the menu becomes bloated users with small screens would be unable to read said menu.

So that rules out putting deep categories or page links there unless I can limit myself, leaving not much else. I guess a further option would be pop-out menus. Then we get the new designer dilemma of the hand-held devices, tablets and smart-phones. Something I am unable to test locally easily or cheaply… I could look into media queries and reactive web design, though its relatively new and something I haven’t toyed with yet.

WP Wonders

I have been spending a fairly large amount of my time getting to know the workings of WordPress, digging deep into the topics of administration page creation. I’m not content with just using a template, even though they can be time savers… it means becoming familiar with someone’s work – and that might deprive me of deeper knowledge.

So yes, at last I’ve cracked my big headache and dug deeper into the mines of backend customisation and creation for WordPress plugins and themes. It seems there are umpteen different ways of doing something in WordPress, slowly though they make methods and options which don’t require complex understanding. Whether the codex has the necessary knowledge is still another matter though.

Expect some articles on this front soon.