Site Notes:
The move was my opportunity to update to MT 2.63 — I did give TextPattern a quick go, but it’s clearly still in the beta stage, I enjoyed experimenting with it though; and I have a project in mind for which it’ll be just perfect. I also took advantage of John’s latest release of SmartyPants - a commendable plugin for automating HTML punctuation entities like curly quotes, ellipses etc.
There are also a few ‘under the hood’ changes which might be worth a mention. I’ve shifted towards using contextual selectors where possible, a good deal of sorting out still needs to be done though. In the interest of structural correctness, the navigation on the left, and the thumbnails, playlist items, and links on the right-hand side are now unordered lists.
Mozilla users, you’ll have to forgive a few small hiccups that I’ve yet to resolve. The way the underline (border) cuts into “syndicate” on the sidebar for example. For some reason, everytime I’ve been in Mozilla 1.3 for more than five minutes today, my system shuts down. Bizarre! I’ll uninstall, and reinstall it when I get a chance. So there’s been very little testing on that front.
As if that wasn’t enough, things got a little frantic around here when I realised that my current hosting contract expires tomorrow —NOT— next week like I had somehow imagined! The result was a flurry of e-mails requesting DNS changes, fist-waving at the suggestive invoice from my old host, a panic attack of trying to backup everything that was on the server, and the furious scribbling of e-mail account aliases and related details. Phew!
