Category Archives: Site Updates

The proverbial feather duster

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Can you find your way through the cobwebs around here?

Me either – time to get the proverbial feather duster out! By Friday I hope to have upgraded this and that, and have a new theme in place. Even I’m fed up of looking at black (and generally I like dark themes). It’s time to let the sun shine through a bit methinks!

While I’m there I think I might get rid of the tagging system too, it’s getting on my nerves and doesn’t really serve a useful purpose for me (other than having a pretty tag cloud to look at).

In other news – because of pressing personal stuff going on I took the decision to leave the Freshly Pressed team. Quite a sad decision (it’s a great team!) but a necessary one for me. On a brighter note though, my counselling has finally finished! Doesn’t mean that my depression has been completely lifted, but it does mean that I’ve made progress. Progress = good. :)

Welcome to Thought Pixels

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Welcome to Thought Pixels, a continuation (but deviation in theme) from The Kat’s Whiskers.

As you will see, I’m back on WordPress and decided to go ahead with the domain name change. There were a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, I think it’s a more fitting name for a blog, and secondly I was getting a little tired of designing themes with cats in them! For now I’m using a slightly customised version of Vader for K2. I’m not sure how long it will stay, but I’m happy with it for the time being.

Not everything is in place yet – guestblock is there but needs a redesign, scuttle links need to be transferred over, and a few other bits and pieces need finishing off. I’ve done away with the gallery for now as it wasn’t getting used all that much anyway. Instead there are thumbnails to my latest Flickr photos in the sidebar.

So, that’s about it, I’m going to go get some sleep now.

PS Don’t forget to update your bookmarks/links to the new domain.

CSS reboot complete

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I didn’t think I would, but I managed it. Redesign done in just under a day. There are still a few little things to tweak here and there, but pretty much what you see is what you’re getting now.

Due to my time constraints I’m still using TXP Rin with yet another of my own slants on it. As you can see I decided to go the whole hog with the cat (kat) theme this time around!

It’s been fun, I think I’ll take part in the next one too. Only on the next round I’ll make sure I plan ahead so I have plenty of time to come up with a design. A timescale of 24 hours wasn’t the best idea I’ve ever had.

And now I’m off to see who else has rebooted and relax for a while.

Update

Seems I was a little premature, and the official time is 12pm GMT on 1 Nov, not as I thought, 12:01am. Ooops. Oh well, it’s done now, what’s a few hours between rebooters. :)

CSS reboot underway

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Not long until midnight now, so I’m going to begin getting the new design in place.

If you happen to visit in the middle of it all, please excuse the paint pots and brushes lying around the place.

Normal service (whatever that is) will be resumed shortly.

CSS reboot

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For my sins, I’ve signed up for the CSS reboot on 1 November.

I’ve no idea why really, these group things usually turn me right off, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I’ve been thinking about redesigning for a while anyway, in the hopes that it will freshen things up and prize some more regular postings out of me.

No idea yet what the design will be, I will most likely sit down on a couple of nights beforehand and figure it all out then knowing me.