It’s perfectly ok saying “Valid XHTML and CSS” but it may be nice to say that it is pretty stuffed in all older browsers. An example is IE6 and some of the old Mac browser versions. I am in no way dissing these themes though. What I have been looking for are specifically REALLY nice WordPress themes…. Here is one of them.

Catastrophe.

Absolutely lovely in the fact it is very well designed and will suit a LOT of uses. But it is certainly ‘Catastrophic’ if you view it in IE6.

Let me show you the screenshots of what I am talking about:

'Catastrophe' Theme in older Browsers eg IE6

Have you REALLY tried to manipulate Comments.php in WordPress.

Half the code is ‘arse about tit’ – I am a ‘Yorkshire Bird’ so I am allowed to say that..Ever heard the jokes about the one most likely to stand up at an MS conference and say ‘B**locks’ just at the right moment that everyone else is thinking it?

All the time I am trying to write this, my partner is getting frustrated that he has to re-listed his item on trademe (Kiwi Ebay attempt) but  as is happening more and more frequently the Trademe site has ballsed up in mid flight. Suprise suprise, it appears that bad management deemed to use MS Server 2008 ed. lol. Did they not know that most of even the biggest financial centers in the world wouldn’t touch it with a 1000ft barge pole? At least Trademe appear to be self aware of this given the effort put into the error page with a big blue bird pooping ‘WHOOPS’

… back on topic…. erm …

oh yes.. The code is back to front and upside down. Why on earth should I have to More »

You will notice that this site utilises category icons.

Dodecahedrons for ‘Branding and ID’, a coffee cup for ‘Random’, a lightbulb for the ‘coding Bits’ category and so on.

This IS possible to do by using a WordPress plugin but like all plugins, they are made for general purpose and include features that you do not necessarily need. All plugins are usually quite extensive and harder to modify. Why use 1000 lines of code in various php files when a ridiculously small and simple bit of code will suffice.

Example: The plugin ‘category-icons’ is 724KB with 60 files in 13 folders

My method is 2 very simple files and 8KB using ‘incat’ and ‘iscat’ and does precisely what I need, and no more

MIND BOGGLINGLY SIMPLE!

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