Drumroll, Please…
Posted on July 3, 2004 by Christine | 23 Comments
Matt is here, and we have converted the 3500+ entry blog to WordPress! He was impressed with how fast Blogomania handled the import of all of my posts, only having a memory timeout issue towards the end.
Skins haven’t been brought back online yet. The default design needs some tweaking, including bringing in the Pixelog photos on the top. First we have to import Pixelog to WordPress too, then the rest of my blogs will fall into place.
For now, it’s time for lunch. Because the best way to get Matt’s help is to offer him a really good meal.
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Hi! I'm Christine. Wife to Mike. Mom of Jason. Owned by 4 cats. Houston & Destination Wedding Photographer & owner of Hot Mama Boudoir. Blogger since 2000. Living in Houston, Texas since 1985. Living in a 1920 Bungalow in the Heights since 2011.
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July 3rd, 2004 @ 2:49 pm
Yay! Looks wonderful, but I’m biased.
July 3rd, 2004 @ 3:18 pm
It looks great! Did you change the font as well? It looks crisper. It could just be my eyes fooling me though. Maybe I’ll switch over to WP myself at some point. I’ve had a WP test blog set up for months, and I really like it.
July 3rd, 2004 @ 3:58 pm
July 3rd, 2004 @ 4:29 pm
It’s crunchy too.
July 3rd, 2004 @ 4:37 pm
I didn’t choose WP, going with EE instead, but everything looks nice and I am glad the conversion seemed painless.
July 3rd, 2004 @ 9:06 pm
wow! the layout looks great! looks nearly 100% to your MT layout. the comment textbox is bleeding into your right sidebar, but other than that, i’m very impressed! before too long, most of my reads will be WP powered. i’m keeping track.
July 3rd, 2004 @ 11:31 pm
That’s odd, because it isn’t bleeding in to the sidebar on any of the browsers I have tested. Which one are you using that you see that?
July 4th, 2004 @ 1:24 am
Christine-I’m viewing with Firefox.8 at 800×600 and this part of the comments box does indeed bleed over into the archive links at the right. I found this to be true on almost any WP site that designs for 1024×768 as its smallest resolution and then is viewed at 800×600, including the WP site BTW.
I really want to get my site up with WP but I’m just a big chicken because I have no PHP coding experience. If you’re having trouble I hate to think what’s going to happen to me! Aieee!
July 4th, 2004 @ 3:12 am
Seriously, any problems I have had are related to the fact that I quite simply HATE CSS. The PHP part is easy. Just like you don’t have to know Perl to run MT, you don’t have to know PHP to run WP. Well, if you want to write hacks, etc. – but just to run the blog? Not a problem.
CSS makes my eyes bleed.
July 4th, 2004 @ 3:14 am
Oh, and I’m running Firefox too – although 0.9.1 – and the comment box isn’t bleeding over for me at all. No matter how tiny I resize my window, the comment box is separated from the content in the sidebar.
See?!? Bleeding eyes. *shakes fist at CSS code!*
July 4th, 2004 @ 11:55 am
i’m a Firefox girl, same version as you. no more IE on my laptop. i’m running at 1024×768. can’t tell my text size though. on my desktop, i’m running IE 6.0 at 1024×768 w/ medium text size and the outline of the comment box does not bleed over. i’ve found Firefox to play with CSS a little.
July 4th, 2004 @ 11:59 am
i think i know what the problem is. in IE, the “powered by” snippet (which includes the # of queries and seconds it took to load) is at the bottom of the page. in Firefox, i see it at the bottom of the sidebar. that’s what’s pushing the left border of the sidebar over and eating into the comment box.
July 4th, 2004 @ 2:09 pm
That’s really strange – we did all the design work in Firefox. On my monitor, the “powered by” line comes up on the bottom of the screen, in the center – where it belongs.
I wonder if it’s an issue with it being the older version of Firefox? Hmmm…
July 4th, 2004 @ 3:56 pm
hey, now the comment box isn’t bleeding into the sidebar. what happened? and the queries/seconds thing is at the bottom.
July 4th, 2004 @ 4:19 pm
Ah. In that case, let me repeat myself, “Bwak, bwak, bwak…”
Seriously though, I’ll get to it, probably as a behind-the-scenes installation so I don’t screw up my entire site.
July 6th, 2004 @ 3:36 am
The comment form seems to bleed occasionally in Firefox 0.8 No idea why.
And I’ll use 0.9 once it’s stable and my plugins work for it!
Will you kill CSS with me? Never has something been such a blessing and such a curse. Sure, you can do some pretty amazing stuff with it. But somedays it just seems like you’re in prison, and your bunkmate is a big neurotic hunk of a human called “CSS” who periodically laughs maniacally and says in a creepy voice: “I really like your padding-bottom.”
Okay, off on a tangent there. But let’s just say that after my latest redesign I was ready to strangle to death the designers of CSS and the coders for Internet Explorer. Actually… why not just lock both groups in a room and let them battle to the death? They must HATE each other!
July 6th, 2004 @ 9:20 pm
Those of you looking at moving from MT to an alternative blogging system may be interested in an article I wrote last week on the subject. A followup based on the comments I have received will be appearing in the next few days as time allows. The article can be found on my website http://ben.franske.com enjoy and feel free to enter comments or email me.
July 7th, 2004 @ 5:43 pm
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Christine switches to WordPress; a world rejoices.
January 3rd, 2005 @ 5:37 pm
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January 19th, 2005 @ 9:17 pm
I like the way your blog is set up.
January 19th, 2005 @ 9:18 pm
Trying this again … I think I messed something up the first time …. like your blog =)
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