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Not that anyone has probably noticed, but I just got Nick’s site up and running like a well oiled machine. It was having a bit of problems for awhile. First the gallery broke down, which was in no way related to me upgrading the site. Unless of course there was some sort of ticking time bomb that wasn’t to go off until a week later that somehow didn’t affect jillapalooza.com since I used the same files. Which would be perfectly logical.

Anyway, one day the WPG2 plugin broke, causing the random pictures not to display. I tried to fix it, only to end up upgrading the gallery, only to have it malfunction with the theme and cause the website not to display. I found an upgraded version of the same theme Nick was using which seemed to work, but something went awry in the plugin installation. I ended up reinstalling the plugin and it seemed to work fine. I will not admit to an error in the initial installation of the plugin because I didn’t read the instructions. Nope. Then I edited his sidebar so it looked the same as before.

What I don’t like about the newest version of WPG2 is that it actually uses a page to embed the gallery. So the link the the gallery is “/page id/name/etc.” as opposed to “/wp-gallery2.php”. I like the look of the latter. I’m sure it has it’s benefits which I have not thoroughly thought through. I guess since it’s an actual page it shows up in a page list as opposed to editing the code. And I guess if I could get my permalinks to display without the /index.php/[…] it would look nice. All right, so maybe this is a better option.

Anyway, the point of this story is that it was jilly to the rescue once again. Funny how the hobbyist-webmaster is the one fixing the my-business-card-says-webmaster’s website.

I had to scratch the itch to change my theme again, so here it is. The original theme is called Iceburgg (see footer for link). I made a few changes to bring it up to the jillapalooza.com standard that you’ve come to expect by adding tag fields, custom graphics, catchy tag lines, etc. I also had to fix the css because the double enter wasn’t creating the desired line spacing.

It’s got the sidebar on the bottom. I guess that would make it a bottombar. I like it… and I don’t. The clean look of having all that clutter out of the way is nice, but if you’re looking to navigate it’s kind of a pain. But there are only 5 posts per page, and most keyboards today come standard with page down buttons. Besides, I’m really only interested in what two people think of it. Me and Blog Reader Kristen. Who still doesn’t have her own blog. But I guess that’s why she’s called Blog Reader Kristen and not Blog Writer Kristen.

Any how, it’s got a fun wintery theme, which I made kind of Christmas-y. I’m not sure that I like the double header pictures, but if I keep this theme for any length of time I’ll probably create a fun jillapalooza.com logo (with the Gimp of course) to put at the very top, then delete the text heading underneath it.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think. :bobble:

By the way, how many more times do you think I’ll change my theme before Nick posts a blog again?

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New Theme: Iceburgg