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I think I’ve pretty much finished this round of site design updates.

The key things I added/changed:

• The overall theme: the main text block is now “flexible” in size, and that was the main thing I wanted. The theme I picked, the Ensellitis theme by Chris Ensell, was just about perfect. I made some very minor changes, altering a few elements of the left block and link colours and such. I don’t know why there aren’t more of these “free flow” templates- how many website visitors come to a site at 800×600? And frankly, my posts are too dang long to look “right” when scrunched down to 40 characters wide or so
• I’ve added a “most recent comments” section at the left
• I updated my banner image, adding a picture of Sadie in the process
• and finally, I added a simple visitor stats block courtesy of Joe Cheung

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Per my previous post, I have been working on an updated format for this site for the last couple of days. I just finished spending about two hours trying to fix a formatting problem…and it turns out to be a bug with Internet Explorer.

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Just in case you were poking around this site sometime between 11:00 PM Pacific and now (1:00 am)…my apologies.

I’ve been testing out different “themes” for Kelly’s World. I went through well over 150 of them at the WordPress Theme Viewer, looking for some specific features. Then I tried a few here on my site just to make see what that looked like.

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Anyone who runs a website has undoubtedly seen it. Hundreds of errors in the logfiles saying “File does not exist: /../favicon.ico”

Years ago, someone in the browser world came up with this idea that it would be neat if each website could have a little icon that would represent that site. If it was named and placed in a standard location, browsers could pick up that image and use it if the user added the site as a favorite, for example. Its a neat idea.

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I’ve started the process of migrating my bigger pieces of content from the old site. For folks who haven’t had the pleasure, this includes larger chunks of text I’ve written about topics like Dungeons and Dragons, massively multiplayer gaming, and some of my computer projects. They don’t really have the same sort of timeliness as a blog posting, and are prone to being rather lengthy.

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I just added in RSS feeds from Google News and Slashdot on the right navigation bar of the main page here. The basics of my new, “improved” site are almost all in place- in essence, everything you used to see in the old site is here now.

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My old PHPNuke personal site had some nice features. I had no real intention of throwing them away when I switched over to WordPress here, but I also had no idea how I was going to get them back.

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