I’m learning more and more about WordPress as I go – this morning I finally got my head around widgets and plugins: something that wasn’t exactly straight forward since the plugins didn’t seem to appear on my page and adding a widget cleared the whole sidebar. It turns out I needed to select the plugins (once activated) under the Design > Widgets menu (a bit of confusion since the docs refer to the Presentation menu, which is now the Design menu), and clearing the sidebar is normal, you just add all the widgets you want – heh, it helps to read the documentation I guess!
I have to say that Blogger’s visual drag-and-drop template is easier to use than WordPress: It seems you can only rearrange items in your side bar, to change the layout of the page requires a new theme altogether/messing around in code. Still the tinkering under the hood is what keeps me happy=)
Ooh, iTunes has recently been updated and looks NICE! I haven’t played with it too much, but there’s a new view for albums showing all the covers (reminds me a bit of Vista’s Media Center, heh) and there’s the Genius bar which provides song recommendations based on selected songs in your library. Oh and unless i’m mistaken, the default iTunes Visualizer theme has had an overhall: all spinning globes and goregous firework effects=)
Well, this is a quick post as i’m rushing off again. This time up to York to help Falling hand in her dissertation and say goodbye to the uni. We’re camping rather than staying on campus/in a B&B this time so i’m really looking forward to it. I haven’t been camping for years – it was the staple diet of my family holidays in my youth.
Later.
(Cool, WP gives a lot more functionality when inserting images than Blogger)
September 16th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Good job mate! I bet you passed flawlessly.
Anyway this is bugging me but where the hell do we find out the details on when to go in. I got your email but even so it's not clear when we officially go in >_>
Thanks for the info though.
September 18th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Arrr matey, it be International Talk like a Pirate day! Make sure to arrr talk like a pirate arrr…
September 20th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Arrr Damn arrr I completely arrr forgot..arrr..we saw arrr a parrot on arrr holiday though, aarr!
(One more for luck: Arrr!)