A Brand New Design for 2010

Posted on Sunday 7th February 2010

Well, largely a new design anyway, at at least a total change in colour scheme. This site had had the old look for too long now, and its always good to have a refresh. This new look brings in some nice colours and an interesting approach to navigation and movement around the site.

The style is essentially dark blue/grey, with a new header design as well. The logo has been replaced with that which appears on most other websites. The new smaller links bar at the top provides links to my most popular other places (Facebook and Twitter) as well as RSS Feeds and also some of my other projects. The main links section for the site has been replaced with a new, friendly message which also acts as clear links for the site content.

Improved and simplified CSS has also been used.

At the moment there are still a few rough edges, with essentially the site structure still the same. There will be some future change to templates to better improve what is possible. The development of other sites has taught me alot more about all the things we can do with WordPress, and I’m keen to use them here too!

Anyway, geekyness over. Thanks, and I hope you like it!

The Powazek Look

Posted on Thursday 28th January 2010

Found this website today with all the iPad hype, and I love the design. The colours, the hover, the simplicity, it all comes together to form such a nice site. Really very good.

WordPress.com – Hack? Strange Messages

Posted on Monday 25th January 2010

Another geeky post (again), but these are pages from WordPress.com this afternoon…

This can’t be right can it? Is it a joke or what? What happened here WP.com!!

Colour in Black and White

Posted on Saturday 16th January 2010

This is crazy, but I love it :)

PS, thanks CGB

New Design for the New Year

Posted on Thursday 17th December 2009

I’m thinking it is about time for a new design adjustment. A major redesign might be a big challenge, and frankly, I’ve got better things to be doing! However, a new header is certainly on the cards. Here’s what I’m thinking this evening…

Current Design at RobParker.org.uk

From this to this…

Perhaps a new RobParker.org.uk

I like it :)

Links for 2009-12-16

Posted on Wednesday 16th December 2009

Ready for some Light Snow?

Posted on Tuesday 15th December 2009

Just checked today’s weather forecast, and…

Screen shot 2009-12-15 at 11.03.14

Although, I doubt it will actually amount to anything!

Google Chrome

Posted on Thursday 10th December 2009

Just downloaded and installed Google Chrome for Mac OS X. Its not bad at all! :)

Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Holidays Are Coming!

Posted on Tuesday 1st December 2009

Not long now til we break for Christmas! Some block decorations and a Christmas music really does get you in the mood!

Install WordPress MU in a subdirectory

Posted on Friday 20th November 2009

I tried to do this this afternoon, and as before, I found something really annoying happening. It created all sorts of error messages after the initial upload of files.

Here’s the solution…

1. Open “/mu/wp-blog-header.php”
2. Locate line 9: if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php')
&& !file_exists( dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ) . '/wp-config.php')) {
3. Edit this line to be: if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') ) {

Hope this is useful sometime, I know it will be to me!