Nitty-gritty details

I’ve been recently working with a new website based on WordPress, and it has taken most of my free computer time in December and also now in January. I haven’t been working with PHP and HTML that much in the past, so I had mostly forgotten how much work there is to get the site looking good. And I’ve not yet started testing with Internet Explorer.

During the process, I’ve come to appreciate WordPress’ plug-in system with the new tagging possibilities. The website is expanding the boundaries of WordPress in several different ways, being more like of a CMS than a blog, so I’ve created a specific plug-in that works well with my templates and their libraries.

As I’m solely working on this, the amount of small details is just astounding. I jump from Photoshop to Emacs to Camino to Photoshop and so forth, and also sometimes to Firefox and SeaMonkey to debug stuff that doesn’t work as I’ve planned. To be honest with you, templates in WordPress don’t really help you with managing the details. The whole system is somehow broken, but I cannot nail the reason. Someone should blow it away and replace it with a good Smarty based template engine. Volunteers?