This week I returned to a long-delayed project — my website redesign.<\/p>\n
Every intention I had of having it finished months ago went fell by the wayside. I lost interest in blogging in the spring. Posts became sporadic. I didn’t even mention when this blog passed its tenth anniversary. (It was five weeks ago, in case you were curious.)<\/p>\n
When I finished writing “The Ginger Kid<\/a>” I decided to take a look at what I had.<\/p>\n It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t what I wanted. But it wasn’t bad.<\/p>\n I wrote down a list of all the things I wanted for the site and all the things I needed to do to make that happen.<\/p>\n What I want, basically, is a magazine-style front end on a blog site to create something that’s more like a professional CMS-powered site than a blog.<\/p>\n I scrapped a lot of the work I’d done and started from scratch. I’d work on it here and there, coding for an hour here, an hour there. Tuesday night I had enough of the theme files put together that they would probably<\/i> work, so I opened up my FTP client, sent the files on their way, and crossed my fingers…<\/p>\n It didn’t work. I had a couple of bugs to chase down (I had some function conflicts), and those were easily squashed. By and large it was coming together.<\/p>\n It’s not finished yet. I think<\/i> the JS image slider will work, but I’ve not actually tested it yet. There are still some minor details I need to take care of from the list I wrote up a few days ago.<\/p>\n Well, one of the items isn’t minor. I understand what I want, but I’m not sure if it’s achievable.<\/p>\n Oh, and I need to code the LiveJournal calendar archives-style page that I created for my present site a few years ago. It was an interesting piece of code I cobbled together way back when.<\/p>\n Otherwise, it’s close. And it looks nice. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week I returned to a long-delayed project — my website redesign. Every intention I had of having it finished months ago went fell by the wayside. I lost interest in blogging in the spring. Posts became sporadic. I didn’t even mention when this blog passed its tenth anniversary. (It was five weeks ago, inContinue reading “On Returning to Coding the Website”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[57,58,4096],"class_list":["post-6539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-css","tag-php","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}