I’ve made changes to the blog. Again. Of course, that’s the point, right?

The big deal is that I’ve given in to the reality that my blog is my web site and my web site is my blog. I have therefore upgraded to the latest version of WordPress by creating an entirely new blog at the root level of my web site and importing all the old content into it. Anyone who pings www.billkubeck.com will now go right to the blog.

This makes sense for two closely-related reasons. First, my web site has no reason to exist beyond hosting my blog. Second, I never really wanted just a blog, I wanted a dynamic web site. Well, WordPress isn’t just blog software, it’s a damn fine Content Management System. By putting a WordPress blog in place as my web site, I get all I wanted. How cool is that?

I’m still rethinking everything, so there will be more changes. Promise.

-= Gryphon =-

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I say “sort of” because I had to install a new untouched copy of the theme that I just got from the author’s site. It works, but all customizations are gone. Foo.

I still don’t know what broke in the old one.

-= Gryphon =-

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I haven’t figured out what went wrong with the theme. I tried uploading a backup and that didn’t help.

I’m taking this as a sign that I need to do some major work on the blog. The version of WordPress I’m running is now way out of date. I had been putting off upgrading because it’s a rather tedious chore. Well, here’s my excuse. I’ve made backups of the entire billkubeck.com site and downloaded the latest version of WordPress. The next step will be to install the new WordPress and rebuild the theme. We’ll see how that goes.

-= Gryphon =-

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One design concept I stubbornly stick with is that a site should look okay at 800×600 screen resolution. I do this because I believe that there are still quite a few people who browse at that resolution. Who? Me, for one. While my desktop system sports 1024×768 resolution, my antique HP laptop can’t manage better than 800×600. The display just won’t do enough dots per inch to get more than that on the screen. I suspect that there are lots of folks out there with similar issues.

I also suspect there are lots of folks out there like me who do not run a system at the highest resolution it will support. My desktop system will cheerfully go as high as 1600×1200 at 100Hz refresh. My middle-aged eyeballs, however, will not. I have found the balance of comfort and content at 1024×768 on my 19″ monitor.

So, no matter what else I may do, I try to make sure that Gryphon 2.0 Beta looks decent at 800×600. Which finally leads to the tweak of the day…. I reduced the width of the header image so the tagline didn’t wrap at that resolution. That will do until I get the proper image of a gryphon to put there.

-= Gryphon =-

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After a brief flurry of mucking about, I picked a theme that had the structure I wanted and I am tweaking that now. The one I’m using now is “In Business,” by Kaushal Sheth. This is a theme by the same author who did “Blue Horizon,” which is the theme that Folkcat chose as the foundation for her blog. I guess we have similar tastes.

In any case, I have chosen a theme as the foundation for Gryphon 2.0 and I will be modifying that from now on.

-= Gryphon =-

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