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Blog Relaunch!

Posted by Greg T. on July 12th, 2009 in Uncategorized

I finally got around to redesigning and rebuilding my blog.  Awesome.

newblog

A few notes on how things work:

  • Everything is running on WordPress (2.8.1)
  • I built the WordPress theme from scratch, using Kubrick as a guide.
  • I used the YUI CSS framework to help layout a grid, normalize browser inconsistencies and to make development a tad bit easier.
  • I’m also using a few WordPress plugins:  Twitter Widget Pro, Flickr Photo Album and WordPress Database Backup.  Out of all of the Twitter and Flickr plugins, these two had the most features and were the most customizable.
  • Depending on if a post is BC/AD (before relaunch / after relaunch) page elements resize to accommodate the 800px wide larger photos of days of yore.  (I had to think this one through a little bit – I used wp custom fields as a marker for needing the wider style).

Hope y’all enjoy it!