Progress Update XII
I haven’t done a progress update in a long time, so here goes…
I only finished two of the four things I wanted to get done this weekend. The fourth, however, was a bit of a pipe dream anyway, so really I finished two of the three things I wanted to get done this weekend.
#1 - Much to Michelle’s chagrin, I launched my antiques blog, Retroyears, this weekend. That is, of course, if you consider setting up WordPress and posting a simple “Welcome!” message as a launch. Well, I do, so, yes, I consider it has having been launched this weekend. Actually, it was born on the Fourth of July. (Ever wonder why we celebrate the Fourth of July when technically we (we being the U.S.) declared our independence on the second of July? Well, politicians messed up, that’s why! One year later, on July 3, 1777, they realized they had forgotten the anniversary and figured, oh bloody heck, we’ll just celebrate it tomorrow!) So, anyway, my antiques posts from henceforth will appear over on Retroyears.
#2 - Okay, so now I realize I didn’t really finish this one. But, very nearly there (I hope!). I have a website that I’m re-launching. I spent a lot of time on this one, trying to get the theme to work. Oh, yes, I could have used any ol’ theme, even the same basic theme I pretty much use on all my blogs since I like it so well. But, oh no, I had the brilliant notion of doing my own theme. Having resolved nearly all of the apparent problems that have cropped up, I am down to the final unresolved issue, which is the appearance of a footer bar right below the sidebar and into the middle of the post. The sidebar, for whatever reason, doesn’t extend the full length of the page, and the content does. Part of the footer, a separator bar, appears below the sidebar. The rest of the footer appears at the bottom of the page, beneath the content. Odd thing is that, in the code, the footer stuff immediately follows the separator bar code, so it shouldn’t split up like that. Anyway, that’s where I’m stuck. I may make one more attempt this evening, but I’m pretty tired of looking at it.
#3 - I also had planned to work on the relaunch of another site that I’ve long neglected. This one should be easier. While I considered switching it to WordPress, I have since decided to leave it as is, and just update the appearance. That should be relatively easy. It’s not entirely unlike modifying a theme, as there aren’t a lot of pages (okay, there are more than my more recent designs have used), but I just have to leave the basic processing stuff alone and change the design. Which is more difficult than it sounds, but I will likely also change it as I do it so that the new design will have a more templated design than it is currently, making future changes (hopefully!) easier.
So how did you fare with your weekend projects? Or, did you opt to just spend the weekend relaxing?
retroyears is pretty catchy but I don’t know how you have time for so many projects?
Do you even work? Besides the $5 a year you make on here?
I had to cut all my projects down to about 3 and that’s not including running my husbands business… But now they are getting done and are more manageable.
Yes, I do work. And during the day I think of things to do that night.
Problem is, by the time I get to work at the computer at night, I forget most of the stuff I had planned to do. Oh, I try little notes and things, but that just gets to be more of a demotivator as you fail to cross many things off the list while adding more.