Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?

Popup Overload

Part one of the theme builder - the part that does fancy banners as seen above - is installed, though I haven't activated it for everyone.

Parts two and three, which handle layouts and styles respectively, will go in tomorrow.  That brings the total number of colour options available to 104.

That's not 104 different colours; that's 104 different things for which you can specify the colour.  Each with a little popup colour selector.

Also, you can spell it "color" and it still works.

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Whoopsy

I was testing the new theme builder module on my test box (a good place for that sort of thing).  It seems to work well, except that the first thing it does is rename and deactivate your header, footer, and banner templates and replace them with the new standard versions.

Which I haven't actually set up yet.

One good point: Turns out the system is actually still usable with the header, footer and banner templates all missing.

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Presto Change-o

Okay, that looks a bit weird, but it actually worked.

Also de-tableized the banner.

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Dirty Pair

Don't know when I'm going to get back to the fansubbing, but in the meantime, here's some Kei and Yuri for you.

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No Ears Kitty

Okay, the ad / no ad switch works fine, except now Floofy has no ears.

So I'll change the banner.

Update: You know what?  That looks pretty good.  I need to fiddle with the rest of the page style a bit to make it match, but that banner design I'm actually happy with.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:46 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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(Falls Over. Dies.)

Coding on the theme builder is done.

Hmm.  Except for a couple of hooks into the new image processing module.  And the bit where it copies the new standard templates onto your blog when you activate it.  And I need to set an expires header on dynamically-generated CSS, because otherwise it gets retrieved on every page fetch (unless you have a lazy browser like IE or Opera).  And I still need to tidy up the user interface templates.  Then I just have to put in the base font set, and create samples for those fonts.   And create another 138 directories on the mee.nu site for all the menu items.  Oh, and I need to create 840 logo images.  And then I have to integrate a simplified version into the registration system.  And test it.

But that can wait until morning tomorrow morning.  First I really need to post some more opening creditses.

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The Problem With That

Is that if you have 140 different colours of menu text, you need 140 different colours of mee.nu logos.  In two sizes.  And the same for mee.fm, and mu.nu.  (The other domains can wait.)

That's a total of 840 images, which took nearly three hours to create.  Well, half an hour messing about searching for the original version, fifteen minutes re-creating it, two hours to write the program, and fifteen minutes to run it...

I won't display them all, but here's a sample of each:





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Little Buggers On The Hillside...

Okay, let's see if them little buggers actually work...

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Font Set Three At Last!

Wrapping up things with the theme builder, with the plan of installing it later today.   Here's the third and final set of fonts - pedestrian, but Unicode-compliant.  Ish.

These include the Microsoft "Core Fonts for the Web", Bitstream's Vera, and the SIL fonts Charis and Gentium.

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Crunch Crunch Crunch

ImageMagick will reduce those 140,000* images to about half their previous size with barely noticeable changes to the quality.  (It should be able to do it with no changes at all, as far as I can see, but it doesn't.)  After six hours of crunching away, it's up to plum.


* Yeah, the number went up.

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