surfiOnline

  • chrisboulton

    (@chrisboulton)


    19 years, 7 months ago

    /me struts it
    On Saturday night (When I should probably have been out partying or something like that) I spent the time converting my existing Weblog to WordPress. I had been planning this for like two weeks and even had a pretty-close-to-complete-functionality copy running on my local development server. I also took the opportunity to redesign the site and actually make sure my page validates against XHTMl Transitional and CSS 2.0.
    You can view the results here: http://www.surfionline.com
    You can also see i’ve expanded WordPress to create custom pages, intergrated a gallery script i had written in to WordPress (well, just the db connections and template system).
    I’ve also customised the WP files (index.php) alot, and added my own custom file for the headers and footers.
    I’m pretty pleased with it myself, and am very impressed with WordPress ^_^
    Comments and critisisms are welcomed too.. 🙂
    Regards,
    Chris

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  • Jack

    (@moxie)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    Looks very bright and pleasant to the eyes. I like the combination of blue, white and something earthly. Also very complete, with all the extra coding (I like the addition of the b-u-i tags in the commentspage).
    Personally I make the fonts on my pc (19″”) one time larger. I know those tiny letters look rather neat, but I prefer pages that are easier to read, especially when there is so much to read.
    Also I like another way of displaying photographs more that the method you’re using now. Images are visual, so the post-like display of images, again with more text than needed, seems to be a bit overcomplete. I’m glad you didn’t also include all the technical information about the camera etc.
    Very clean site!

    Thread Starter chrisboulton

    (@chrisboulton)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the comments ^_^.
    I was thinking about making the font one size larger myself, on 1400*1024 (My Res) its okay to read but I do thnk it would be alot nicer one size bigger.
    Do you mean the gallery pages, like this? http://www.surfionline.com/gallery/view.php/16 Is so, I’ll try to impeove it a bit..
    Chris.

    plainsman

    (@plainsman)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    cool! a very clean and pleasant look … easy to read and navigate … the posts are interesting, too ;o)
    i’m especially impressed with your “quote” CSS application
    i.e., /*** MyCode ***/
    do you plan to make a ‘zip’ of the style & CSS and share with the community? i think this would be a VERY popular style!
    nice job … i take my hat off to you!

    Thread Starter chrisboulton

    (@chrisboulton)

    19 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the comments 😀
    I don’t really want to redistribute the layout because its sort of my personal site, and I want to keep it like that. I am working on several themes (some similar) for WordPress though which I intend to redistribute.
    The MyCode is parsed by a custom plugin I made, in which i pulled the core MyCode functions from the forum software I make, MyBB. I love textile, but I also love the simplicity of a BB Code system, and I think its also a lot easier for newbish commentors to use the BB Code rather than attempt HTML.
    I haven’t had time to check out many other copies of WordPress, but I love what I have seen so far. Everyone is putting a lot of work in and it looks like its a very rewarding process.
    Regards,
    Chris

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