ok so I just saw the tic-tac-toe thing on Phil’s blog and thought well I might as well add it. So I copied the code and placed it in the siderbar.php file and low and behold it worked. which is more I can say for my essays right now that look more like html code than an essay!
Ok so I have put my essay up on my blog now, but i seem to be having some major wordpress issues with the way they are laid out, it maybe because i’ve copy and pasted the essay from my original word docs but it seems like even when trying to fix them in the code area they still don’t want to play. It could be an issue with the theme I have been editing but I think its a bit late to tell.
ok, so as you can see from my site I have changed the sidebar around so that it is now floating to the left of the page when originally it was on the right as you can see there is a before shot of the blog and now you can see what it looks afterwards. This was done by going into the stylesheet and changing the float option from right to left in the sidebar style option and also floating the content from left to right in the content option
#sidebar{
width:230px;
float:left;
margin:5px;
padding:0;
}
#content{
width:540px;
float:right;
margin:5px auto;
padding:0 15px 0 0;
}
sorry this is an image i’ve used before but you can see the menu on the otherside
I have placed a new tag cloud on my site as I didn’t get to grips with the whole tagging business to begin with as you can see on my sidebar there is a new widget called new tag cloud, this will now allow me to display my tags with pride!
I have updated the colour of the background behind the main content of the site. originally it was white but I have now altered it to a darker grey colour which I think looks quite nice. I did this through editing the CSS styles shown below.
#main{
background:#333333;
height:30px;
margin:10px auto;
}
#mainbck{
background:#333333 url(images/mainbck.gif) repeat-y;
width:800px;
margin:5px auto;
padding:0;
}
This is what the site looked like previously:
I also forgot to mention that I have now got myself a Del.icio.us account which I have found to be quite handy. I managed to save a few links whilst in class the other day which I then looked up at home. I always found it annoying that i couldn’t see my favorite where I went now they follow me about like a lost sheep dog. I have also installed a del.icio.us widget that I am going to place in my side bar to show some of the links I have found that might be of interest.
Well not exactly but I have now filled up some of my blog roll space with a few of my peers. feel free to add me anyone. I plan to put some more in due course but from blogs i’ve found on the web and relevant links related to my subject area of web 2.0 and gaming.
Ok, so the next implementation that I have done on my blog is to add a flickr gallery into my side widgets. I wanted to pump an rss feed of screenshots of upcoming gaming into the gallery but currenty all im seeing is little red x’s so hopefully i will be able to rectify this in due course. I got the plugin from the following website
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-rss/
update: I have now managed to feed images from flickr that have the following tags nintendo, xbox, wii.
Yes its late and I must be going a bit loopy but I saw this in the plugins directory and being a fan of anything space related “nerd” I thought this was a must have. It doesn’t fit to well with all my gaming stuff but I think its an interesting edition to have on any wordpress blog
Ok so what is it..
Well its basically the daily photo from Nasa’s website which is outputed to my side bar. Installed this the usual way by placing it in my plugins directory and then activating it in the widget section in word press. if you want to have it on your site then just go to the following link.
Ok so I have installed the Exec-PHP plugin onto my wordpress blog, I haven’t had time to get to grips with PHP fully yet but to demonstrate that the plugin is working I have written a simple time stamp which takes the time and date from the server and places it on the post as you can see below
Code used:
<?php
echo date(”F j Y”);?> <?php
echo date(”H:i:s”);?>
output:
December 5 2008
07:32:57
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