Category Archives: kennsarah.net

FYI, the site is doing that weird thing where it won’t rebuild pages. Ugh. Comments will probably not work for a little while. Update: Okay, I’ve resolved the issue for now. The problem was an apparant issue with the use … Continue reading →

As Jai noted, I’ve switched the site over to PHP. That’s not the only thing I got done today. Mark Pilgrim recently wrote another reminder that gzip-compressing web pages can save you some serious bandwidth. Unfortunately, this requires some magic … Continue reading →

In part because they’ll make a great backup the next time I accidentally overwrite my Individual Archive Template with my Default Search Template in the middle of the night, but mostly because I’m all about open source: the index and … Continue reading →

Okay, as far as I can figure out from this, any time you have an position: relative; outer element that wraps a position: absolute; inner element, then that inner element should find its offset relative to the outer element. Or … Continue reading →

Good News: I was able to create a site menu using an unordered list with the great help of this column at A List Apart. Right now there’s a whopping two items, but plenty of room for expansion. Bad News: … Continue reading →

Kalsey Consulting Group: SimpleComments. TrackBacks are comments. They are comments left on someone else’s site rather than your own, but they are comments nonetheless. Movable Type makes a distinction between entry comments and TrackBacks that seems artificial, and it made … Continue reading →

Design cues by Dave and Doug have helped make this site a bit easier to read. I know a lot of you had to sort of squint at the three-column layout in 800×600 (Mom, Mom-in-law, Jaime-at-work, to name a few…)–especially … Continue reading →

The redesign continues. The update is going well, and I’m back to the serif font. What I’m doing now is removing all of these extra tags that are still hanging around from the original Movable Type template. I had originally … Continue reading →

Template edits in progress–if the site looks too garrish, try refresh. If it looks like the presentation of Our Story has been completely mangled in your browser, well, it’s my fault. I started some site tweaking that got a little … Continue reading →

Okay, I don’t know what I did with my template to make it break MT Macros, but, what’s done is done. Our Story will not be featuring this decidedly wicked cool MT plugin until the increasingly desirable redesign rolls out. … Continue reading →