Border Patrol

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This’ll just be a quick update (both to jot down something and to add more content so that I can work on the post <-> navigation).

Went back and re-read my last post. Good gawd is it jumbly, but I think I’ll leave it mostly alone to stand as a testament to the dangers of late-night posting after staring at CSS/PHP for 4 hours straight.

Coding continues, I’ve been working on the Comments section primarily recently. Just kind of going down the list and styling things as I see them.

I really love the CSS3 Rounded-Corner property (border-radius), as you may have noticed, but slapping borders on elements has a funny way of coming back to bite you. Primarily, width:100% and borders do not play nice together.

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Bendin’ in the Wind

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So I’d been working on the site over the past two days trying to get a few things sorted out (read: pulling my hair out and weeping in a corner) when it occurred to me, “I’m working on a Blog, why don’t I actually document the trials and tribulations I’m having on the Blog!”

Smashing idea if I do say so myself. So, a fine subject for my opening post: Bending WordPress to my Will!

So, if you’ll take a look around here you’ll see that the site uses a custom WordPress Theme that I’ve been ‘developing’, lovingly titled zBox (for the time being).

If you’re here especially early you may notice various safety hazards, small fires, unbolted supports and dust everywhere since it’s still in progress.

The word developing is in quotation marks there because I have next-to-zero experience with PHP. ‘zBox’ is based directly off of the quite clean and stark templates from the HTML5 starter theme ‘Toolbox’ so I’m not building entirely from scratch but there’s still a ton of existing codebase to get familiar with.

It’s hard to really even find a thread to start following so total submersion seems like the best path forward; I’m basically just jumping in the deep end here.

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