After realizing some content was falling off the site due to article limits I placed on the listings in Textpattern, I added some navigational goodness.
In the sections where there are enough entries to warrant it, you’ll see an “Older Entries” link at the bottom to go to the previous set of posts. When in the older articles, you should also see a “Newer Entries” link at the top to move you forward in time.
Also, when viewing an individual article, you’ll now see previous/next links at the bottom of the entry.
Gallery 2 has been released into the wild, and as a result, I decided to convert mine. G2 brings real database support, real templating and theming, and loads of other goodies.
My site style grabs a new image from my Gallery every hour to use in the header. In the past, I used a hacked version of the block_random.php from Gallery 1, which output what I needed to files which are then read in by the CSS. Unfortunately, the new random image block in G2 doesn’t behave the same way.
Luckily, combined with the square thumbnail module, it’s not hard to grab random thumbs, I just had to parse some html to grab the URLs out of the returned data.
I also made the thumbnail size 90px instead of 120px, which makes the header less unwieldy.
What’s really nice is that the composition of the photo is mostly there, albeit grown and cropped for squareness. The old G1 script I wrote grabbed a 120px X 120px square from a random x and y, which sometimes didn’t look like much.
Yeah, it’s discontinued, but I had the need to boot my Ti Powerbook back into 9.2 to see if the venerable MacSpeakerz was working incorrectly in Classic . Turns out it was working fine, but I was being a dork.
On a whim, I tried this site in Mac IE 5.2. It looked woeful.
Am I going to even try to fix it? Not a chance.
My advice to Mac OS users out there looking at this site (which, judging by my stats has been, oh, ONE person other than me in the last year): get Mac OS X and a real browser.
If you can’t upgrade to X, at least get an older version of a real browser
SpewThis site is published using Textpattern . It is hosted on Shockergroup ’s servers, which use FreeBSD .
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Tom Ierna is the maintainer of this website, but many people in the Ierna clan are featured here. If you are a member of the Ierna family, please send me an e-mail, especially if you’d like to have an e-mail address in the ierna.com domain.
