Waldo Jaquith - This site is so hideous.

This site is so hideous.

On 29 December 2005 with 11 comments

I’ve tolerated such a horribly ugly website for so long that trying to fix these WordPress 2.0 upgrade-induced bugs in my template seems a little like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I’m teetering on the edge of just throwing the whole thing out and starting over again. I should just pretend that I’m a career website development professional who wants people to think that he knows what he’s doing.

Maybe if I use one of the prepackaged WordPress templates (in which my “Recommended Reads” one-off links are useless) I’ll be sufficiently embarrassed that I’ll just have to do something drastic.

Update: Well, I’ve got a bit of a new template done, so I’ve put that into place. “Recommended Reads” still renders wrong, but everything functions, more or less. My apologies for this “under construction” approach to things. It’s not my style, but I’ve just got too much going on right now to do it all at once.

11 Comments

Hey, I read that you have a whole lot of TAL mp3’s…

I really really really want them. Could you perhaps provide? Email me?

Posted by Robert Anderson on 30 December 2005 @ 1am

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 30 December 2005 @ 1am

Hmm. I’m not used to looking at the left side of the screen to read your posts. Feels kinda backwards. *shrugs* I can get used to it though. :)

Posted by the Political Noise on 30 December 2005 @ 2am

I just wish I knew how to add a third column to my blog. I know zippity-doo-dah-day about web design.

Posted by J.C. Wilmore on 30 December 2005 @ 8am

Great Flying Spaghetti Monster! This is a really ugly site right now.

Posted by ATA on 30 December 2005 @ 9am

Not ugly. Plain. Yesterday it was ugly.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 30 December 2005 @ 10am

I like the recent photos section…Everything isn’t exactly the way you want it when you move into a new house…same logic applies here :-)

Posted by Tom Joad (Kevin) on 30 December 2005 @ 10am

J. C. : http://glish.com/css/7.asp

3 column CSS flex goodness.

Posted by John Athayde on 30 December 2005 @ 11am

I like the recent photos section…

I’ve been wanting that section for a long time. :) I’d really like to take more photos for the site, and I enjoy the ease of uploading them to Flickr. It’ll be nice to style that presentation box, too — it’s a little crude at the moment.

Everything isn’t exactly the way you want it when you move into a new house…same logic applies here :-)

Exactly.

Dang, I just noticed that live preview function hasn’t been added. I gotta put that back.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 30 December 2005 @ 11am

No, I mean today. It’s ugly right now. The orange was a bad move. Orange is usually a bad move.

Posted by ATA on 30 December 2005 @ 12pm

Suck it up.

Posted by Waldo Jaquith on 30 December 2005 @ 12pm

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