September 29, 2006
Here’s the daily news from The Mystic. Today I got the Aqua version of ZonesDark and the Black version of ZonesLight out to the store. I’m doing these as people request the color. Cherry and Pink for ZonesDark are next. Watch for those tomorrow. I can only stand about two of those per day – the tedious nature of the routine is so utterly boring I can’t stand it LOL. I know you think, “What so hard about changing the colors from one to the next?” Yeah, you go ahead and make one of these and then tell me what you think ;-) It’s not much easier than building one from scratch. At least new templates have the interesting process of design involved. Mucking with XML and doing find/replace actions 100 times isn’t fun. Not to mention, the thumbnail process and then the packaging, testing parts… BAH :D Unless you’ve done this stuff, you have no idea how your patience is tested.
Anyway, in other news, I updated the Italian Tile download because I got a note about the installers not being signed. I do sign those so the installers can’t be hijacked – that was fixed and reloaded on the site.
I hope to get SoftWhite finished this weekend. Then I need to rewrite AquaPRO, CrimsonPRO and Aerolite. Remember way back, when everyone was whining about how Apple locked certain elements onto the pages and you couldn’t delete them? Well, low and behold, some of those actually had/have a purpose you may not have been aware of, or that were not yet implemented and now are or soon will be. For example, that extraneous picture on the first page of the Podcast area. It looks harmless – why not delete it – it’s taking up space anyway. Well DOH – that’s the picture that iTunes uses for your podcast entry! Hum… have to get that back on the page. Then there’s the title of your blog – well I went and unlocked that and deleted that puppy too. That’s the thing that determines the heading in your feed. DOH! :D
Fer cryin out loud I wish they would have labeled those things . Bah, there are a few other bugs so I’ll be fixing all those and posting the updates sometime in the next couple of weeks.
Regarding this site design – I’m still working on it in between templates so thank you for your patience. It’ll be really handy when it’s done. Did I mention last night that I have code that lets me specify which category to show in any given area? For instance, in the right gutter on the blog main page – probaby the page you’re reading, there’s a section called Latest Support Topics. I created a category called support and then told that section to only show Support entries. Cool ey? This should be very helpful for those looking for specific stuff. I’ll do that for How-To, FAQ and maybe even my To-Do lists.
Lots of stuff to do so back at it. Last note – provided there’s time, I’ll be doing some holiday templates. Watch for those – those should be fun.
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