You know, pretty much like anyone with an online journal, I’ve got little to say, so focus on the minutia of life. I have to update the templates on the other pages here, but think I am ready to call this site good enough for now after today. That means I get to move onto working on my fiction/poetry site. I’ll work on that one behind the scenes until it is good enough to go live.

This site now has class tags to everything I have left to style, but since that can be done through CSS, I’m not worried about getting to that right away. There’s still a lot of tweaking to do yet, but I am close. I think I have most of the base functionality done for this site, but I will be adding more at a later date.

Nearly ready to move onto my other sites. There’s still a hell of a lot to do on this site (the list keeps growing), but for the most part I have the look and functionality I want. Once I get the main page tweaked out exactly like I want, I will start replication this throughout the site. Then it will be time to go work on my fiction and poetry site: fervorflower.com (NSFW). I have some cool plans for that site as well. Hopefully, I can get that one rolling a bit faster than this site. I think the redesign here has taken me about a month. I am going to budget that much time for the redesign of that site as well.

Of course no site is ever finished just abandoned (stole that quote from a short story writer), so I will be coming back here to put tweaks and polishes on this site.

Today is the day I wanted to be done with the changes here, but it is taking me a little longer than expected. Mostly because I keep coming up with more things I want to add or change. I keep forgetting stuff as well, like making the members’ page and search forms fall in like with the design of the rest of this site. Oh well, it’s coming along.

I have comments working. They are ugly right now, but they work. I still have a lot to do.

I have to create more sidebar elements (like ads and such), a 404 page, have to add in a gallery, decide if I want forums (probably not), have to enable comments, enable comment preview, have to take off the continue reading link for shorter posts, come up with a logo and an favicon.ico, decrease the opacity of the window backgrounds (can’t figure this out), and increase the font size, style links, and I have to make the background image a bit bigger (and make them dynamic). I think I will keep a running list of what I have to do, and put what I have done below the jump.

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