Lightside Update – Blog Bug Fixed

September 19, 2007

Yippee!! I found the bug and got it fixed. At least I did not experience the bug once I found the problem. I didn’t publish a page, but that wasn’t necessary to make the bug appear either.

Lightside users can download this update and the blog’s first entry will now work – no need to use the work-around anymore.

I also changed the navigation menu font back to Verdana. I inadvertantly used American Typewriter when I created the 2.0 version of this theme and then later realized it had use Verdana in the 1.0. Hopefully no one has their heart set on AT. Sorry about that, but that’s what BETA is for anyway.

The only thing I have left to do for this theme is get the Podcast pages done.


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4 Responses to “Lightside Update – Blog Bug Fixed”

  1. Kari wrote:
    1:52 PM 09/19/2007

    Okay, so I have a question about Lightside. Is there any way I can change the shapes on the puzzle page? Or is this buried so deep in the code that I can’t get to it?

    Inquiring minds want to know =)

  2. Suzanne wrote:
    1:59 PM 09/19/2007

    Unfortunately the actual shape of those image placeholders is embedded in the XML. The code to produce those is fairly ugly. You can’t even hand-edit it. To create those, I had to create the custom shapes within a new template, then generated another template from that template to capture the code for the shape itself. Then I had to lift the code from that template and use it to create a custom path for an image placeholder in the Lightside template. Totally hair-brained but it worked :)

    Not exactly what you wanted to hear though. There’s no way to do what you describe until custom shapes become available in iWeb and only if Apple allows you to then mask an image placeholder with your custom shape. Probably not going to happen but you never know.

  3. Kari wrote:
    3:05 PM 09/19/2007

    Yeah, I kinda figured that. Oh well, I can dream, can’t I?

  4. Suzanne wrote:
    3:44 PM 09/19/2007

    :) iWeb 19.3 will have that feature ha!