Parts of the website were unavailable since yesterday evening, it seems I forgot to change on line of code on a few of the pages which resulted in them not displaying when called. I have been moving the website over into wordpress one page at a time, and well yesterday I decided it was the turn of the home page, which meant making a few changes in wordpress itself and to the location of a few of the websites key files. Anyway I have now tested all the pages and they are working again, at least I will know for next time.
After a few hours trying to get a php if… else statement working I was finally able to extend the dynamic highlighting effect for the navigation panel into the blog, so if you are on the 2006 archive page the 2006 archive will be highlighted in the navigational panel. I have also moved the header, search box, menu, and page footer for the main site into separate files, to make it easier to update them and to reduce the size of the individual pages. At the same time I have converted most of the site to php rather than html, this means if I need to include something from the blog in the main site I can without any problems, the only part of the site that isn’t php now are the error pages which will remain asp for now.
I have just completed updating wordpress from version 2.7.1 to version 8, there was a slight problem during the update which meant that the blog, the eandhbaxendale.com home page and the successful enquiry page were down for a while. To fix the incomplete automatic update I had to manually install the update which was a slow process given that Adobe Dreamweaver kept dropping the connection to the web server, but I got there in the end and all is well again.
So after a bit of tweaking I have decided to bite the bullet and switch the new theme on, I have managed to sort out a few issues, some remain but at the moment I am not to concerned about them. I will however continue to tweak a few things every so often until I am completely happy with it. If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to use to comment form (if it works) or the general enquiry form to send them in.
So a couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I had started working on a new theme for the blog, a theme based upon the rest of eandhbaxendale.com, well with some help from Luke over at lunamedia.co.uk I can tell you that it is getting closer to being finished, everything seemed to be working when I took it for a test drive earlier today, however I have decided not to switch it on just yet.
There are a few issues to sort out first, which are mainly to do with the styles used. There is also an issue with left aligned images and the post meta data floating up into the image, if the image extends past the last line of text in the post, the temporary fix is to right align them but I would like to find a better solution if possible. Time permitting I would like to have it up and running by next week, I would also like to finish off the trussed rafter types and trussed rafter eaves details pages as well which I started to update a few weeks ago but got distracted by other jobs at work.
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Well I have started working on a theme based upon the rest of the eandhbaxendale.com site, and so far it’s going well. I have got the header, sidebar and content area working somewhat, I just have to sort out the styles and the footer section, and then I will take it for a test drive to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything, which I probably have.
Looking at those two sentences it sounds so simple, but it is my first time working on a WordPress theme and my first time working with PHP, the enquiry forms on the main site are submitted using PHP but that is a script I downloaded and the only customising I did was to add the email address the forms are submitted to.
Welcome to WordPress. After waying up all the pros and cons I decided to install WordPress on our server and use that for blogging rather than Blogware, over the coming months I am hoping to setup a custom template that will give the blog a simialr appearance to the rest of eandhbaxendale.com
Hello and welcome to our blog, I thought it was about time I set up a blog rather than using the news section of our website.
