Today’s a snow day–six inches fell on Lawrence overnight and KU actually closed campus. In my four-plus years as a student there they didn’t close campus once. This winter alone I think it’s been closed twice.
Anyway, so I decided to spend my time at home on a little professional development. I decided to tackle a few things in WordPress–namely, better use of CSS within it, and getting up to speed on widgets. And I give you the new-look blog.ruralocity.com.
For the most part I think I like widgets–they’re easy to set up and juggle. I downloaded an alternative Search widget (why no title bar, Automattic?) but other than that am running stock. I’ve also got a couple of plugins going, such as the AddThis options you should see at the end of every post. The Google Analytics plugin is giving me some problems–not sure why–but the nifty iPhone plugin works as advertised.
I know, it needs some tweaks–I’m not happy with line heights and a few other things–but this serves as my somewhat annual pledge to renew my own interest in this site. I’ll try.
Also, no, I haven’t looked at it in IE yet. Later.
