ThinkSoJoE's Thoughts

… then again, that’s probably why I own a website called “BoredWrestlingFan,” huh?  A few months back I’d be with the rest of thinksobrain every Saturday, getting wasted and making music.  This week I was asleep on the couch early out of sheer boredom.  Quite frankly, I need a car, because I could’ve been at a party tonight instead of sitting around doing nothing.

I did post an entry over at my friend Eric’s blog earlier, but that was more out of wanting to drop by and say hello (and shill my family of websites) to some old friends.  If you want to see an old picture of me back in the early days of Fropac Entertainment, he’s got a gallery on there called “Crazy Bowling,” and there’s a picture in that collection of me wearing an offspring shirt and a backwards red hat a la Fred Durst (despite the fact that it’s actually a Goldfinger hat).  I look way better now!

My tutorial on the WordPress nav bar with current page highlighting got some praise on the CSS-Tricks forums by none other than Chris Coyier himself.  That meant a lot to me because if it weren’t for CSS-Tricks, I’d still be stuck making crap that looks like stupid5pin.net.  Compare that to stupid5pin.com, and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

I’ve got my next two projects in mind.  The first is to fix some design flaws in thinksobrain.com.  The next I think is going to be some work for charity, but I don’t really want to say anything until I actually do something.  I will be taking clients still, if anybody is interested in utilizing my work.

It took me a while to find something that works.  I tried to use SimplePie, but it didn’t work too well for digg.  So I took a look through the WordPress plugins directory and found the KB Advanced RSS Widget.  It’s a fully functioning RSS Parser, and allowed me to customize the feed to the point of getting it to look EXACTLY like I had it looking on my local test version of ThinkSoJoE’s thoughts.  It’s perfect.  Now if only Twitter would work…

As you can see, I’ve been trying to get my XHTML-standards-compliant Digg feed going, without much luck.  I’m researching how to parse RSS feeds, because that’s what the plugin I thought was going to work was doing, and while it worked on my local test version of this site, it didn’t here on the main page.

Right now, of course, I can’t work on it because I’ve got BoredWrestlingFan’s Real-Time SmackDown results.

I’ll probably start working right after the show tonight.  Later guys!

Apparently the Digg sidebar that I was running causes my page to not validate, so for the moment, it’s gone.  Obviously I’m going to work to try and get it back up but I pride myself on my pages being valid XHTML.  BTW, check out the new AJAXed comment form!

Well, I think the most obvious tweak you’ll notice is in the nav bar - it’s got rollover buttons now.  I’ve also added my recent diggs in the sidebar.  I had some design issues with the digg widget, but I managed to figure out how to mix and match the widget themes and came up with something I like - for now.  If I can figure out how to further style it, I will, but for now it looks pretty decent.

I’ve got an idea for a project, but I haven’t gotten around to getting to work on it.  I think the person I’d be doing the project for would like it, and it’s for charity.  I’ll keep you guys posted on what I’m working on.