Listening to: Natalie Merchant & 10000 Maniacs - Everyday Is Like Sunday (Smiths Cover)

For relaxation I like to install content management systems. At the moment everybody loves Wordpress.

Mood: Weekend
Watching: Big Lebowski

Part of the reason that Wordpress is separtated from the rest is that it uses CSS2 and XML for it's themes and layout. Alex King hosted a competition and some really good skins appeared. To top it off some of them were released under GPL so they could be used without anyone getting upset.

Even Stanley Sy replaced MoveableType with wordpress and as he designed the current deviantart theme this made me pay attention.
Just for fun I put together an install that had Gallery2 embedded in Wordpress which looks quite cool, all thanks to wpg2.ozgreg.com.

I am pretty happy with the way the Theme, Gallery 2 and Wordpress integrate together especially as the "rin" theme is compliant CSS2 and XML. I changed the theme so that it would scale depending on display size (80%) as I just think this looks cooler than a fixed block in the middle. Firefox supports min-width and max-width e.g:
file="style.css"
body {
min-width: 640px;
max-width: 1024px;
}

which tends to make it quite hard to break a design by rescaling. Of course IE SP1 does not support this which is a shame. I know this is all a bit boring but for me it is fun.

Links

• Corruptive Press



• Gallery 2 Beta 3 (Bingo!) Released



• Wordpress Gallery2



• Alex King WordPress Themes competition.