Developing the theme

The site is now up and has been running quite smoothly. Since I built the WordPress theme from scratch (with quite a lot of help from outside sources) it feels good that things are going well. I even have a friend and fellow photographer that asked if he could use my theme on his own website bqrockfoto.fi. He did some changes to the color scheme to match the feel of his photos. Check it out, he really takes smashing good live pictures!

I’ve tried to add one gallery per day and I’ve almost succeeded. To let people know if they’ve been captured in any photos I’ve posted an overview of recent galleries on Facebook and tagged them there.

A feature missing from WordPress is the possibility to render a link list (eg. categories) as a line, not list items. I’ve made a site using Joomla, which had the function built in. It can come in quite handy. It sometimes seems tedious to style a menu list with css in order to create the effect of a single line instead of a list.

There are some hover issues at the moment with my own menu. The ALL link’s hover border-bottom is a few pixels lower than the rest of the menu. I’ve tried to locate the problem, but nothing has come up yet. It probably has something to do with the fact that the rest of the items are <li><a> and the ALL link is simply <a>.

I know the .css-file is sloppy and I should go through all elements and clean it up a bit. All in due time. There are a lot of other things on the schedule right now.

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New blog started

Here it is – my new photo blog. I’ll try to update it frequently with new photo galleries. My goal is to add one gallery per day until I’ve scrolled through my archive. New photos will of course appear as well.

I’ve already had a lot of problems designing this page. For the record: browser compatibility is a pain in the ass. I’ll try to work on it, but it’s always so tedious. At the moment it works best in Safari 4.0.4 (running on a Macbook/OS X 10.4).

An active issue for the site is font smoothing differences. I’ve used an embedded font, PT Sans Narrow, throughout the page. The font is loaded in all browsers I’ve tested but the font-weight is different in Firefox (at least on Mac). Let the screen shots speak for themselves:

Safari 4.0.4

Firefox 3.6

Is this just a font rendering issue in Firefox due to the font embedding? I know a more legible font like Verdana, Times New Roman etc. could be used, but I felt like going with PT Sans Narrow on this one. Let’s hope a solution is found. I myself will go on to viewing and updating the page in Safari for the best visual experience.

Edit 19.03.2010, 13:49

The problem seems to have gone away, which is odd! Here’s a screen shot of Safari and Firefox. No updates have been made to either browser. Maybe my computer just had a bad day.

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