Web Site Changes: New Theme, New Root
As you can see, I have been working on this site’s theme.
I’m designing specifically to support the IAB Universal Ad Package. The way I’ve done that is through three columns: The left, “content,” column is 728 pixels wide, which is the same as a leaderboard; the center column is 180 pixels wide, which supports both the rectangle and wide skyscraper formats; and the right column is 300 pixels wide, which supports the medium rectangle.
I remain committed to never having advertising on this site, nor ever charging for any content here. (I greatly appreciate donations, and I do charge for customizing / specific implementations of my code). The reason I am designing my site this way is to both have a base template from which to develop client sites that need to support advertising, and because the WordPress Codex is thin on templates specifically geared toward supporting display advertising.
Finally, I moved the blog from a subdirectory to the root of my Web server. When I started blogging with WordPress back in 2006, I thought I might do something else with the site, and didn’t want to clutter up the root with WordPress-specific rewrite rules and files. Since then, WordPress has become a much more robust content management system, and I’ve discovered that a blog is all I really need, so it’s high time everything went to the root.
As a result of all these changes:
- The template has some problems still, which I’ll be fixing over the next few days. If you spot a problem, please leave a comment.
- Many local links, namely download and image links, are likely broken; I will be fixing those, too, over the next few days.
- I’ve not installed WP-Syntax, my old code highlighting plugin, because I’ve gone completely over to SyntaxHighligher Evolved. Thus, some code may not wrap properly or look pretty, especially on older posts. You guessed it: I’ll fix that over the next few days.
Again, if you spot something that needs fixing, please let me know by leaving a comment to this post. Thanks!
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