James Lloyd

In the spirit of release early release often, if have made JLBP2 v0.1 availble for download. Its the exact code im currently using on this site, so clearly works (I think).

Download can be found here on the project page.

At the beginning of the week I started to create my own wordpress theme using the blueprint framework. Towards the end of this week, that theme is on its second version and has had a complete rewrite from scratch. The whole process has made me love Wordpress even more than I did, and now with blueprint all “FFS! its broken in IE again” woes have gone Continue reading read more…

I have been playing with the wordpress templates or sometime, and have created several from scratch, with varying levels of success. I created this one with the blueprint css framework, last one i did with 960.gs. This seems to be working much better.

Currently getting irratated by Microsoft’s stupid browsers. Role on IE8 which is standards compliant. Will try and get some of the IE problems sorted, (may be, probably not).

Update:

Have been trying to fix a problem with my widgets sidebars, the theme has some on the front page and the standard side bar as well. Turns out to be a bug in 2.5.1 of wordpress, who’d a guessed it wasnt my shoddy coding?. Continue reading read more…

Despite having 13860 hits since March 28th. I

Thought I’d post re how I got the Google talk status thingy working on the side bar. This was stupidly simple ( after excessive googling that is ). Its easy because of a guy called Nathan Fritz has written a jabber bot called Edgar. The bot adds its self to your Googletalk contacts list, ( this is so it has visibility of your status ) then you can query the PHP status script at the Edgar site.

i.e. for my side bar I have just added the code ( can you call it code ? ) below :

<li>Someone<b><?php readfile(”http://edgar.netflint.net/status.php?
jid=someemail@gmail.com/talk&type=text”); ?></b></li>

Hunting About I found this plugin w2mstatus which allows my to show my MSN status in the side bar over ther.? After installing it I couldn’t get the images to change depending on my status, so after a little bit of fiddling I managed to hack it right. I also added the line for you personal message too, which is cool!

download it here