rawlinson – us

Site has a New and Darker Look

I have been working on a new look and feel for the rawlinson-us homepage. If it looks familiar to you – well read the FAQ. The site is very much inspired by Steve Smiths redesign. I have no excuses but I have a great reason – it looks sweet. I hope Steve Smith doesn’t get pissed.

I learned a few things while doing this rebuild so I want to give a plug to those places that taught me something. First the archives page was created thanks to the nice tip at db.rambleschmack.net. Secondly, I didn’t know how to pass multiple parameters into a wp function the way they want them but thankfully the wordpress codex page on wp_get_archives answered my question for me (pass them like URL arguments).

I also learned about the “is” functions for wordpress templates at boren.nu. Very useful!

I also made some minor changes to scry – my photo album software so that it would provide RSS feeds of the images. I am using this with a new plugin I wrote for the site to show the little thumbnails in the bottom part of the page. I still need to update the scry theme to look like the rest of the site – right now it’s kind of clunky.

This look may not last long. Basically if Steve Smith sees it and asks that I remove it I will be reverting to the old site. I hope I don’t have to but since I am so lame that I can’t design my own site that is the price I will pay I guess.