2008-08-16
Steady, steady ...
While I am preparing for major additions and starting my homework as a new OASIS Open individual member, I am also performing some simple maintenance to the site template (resulting in version 0.02):
- There is one bit of client-side JavaScript at the bottom of the template that is completely extraneous. Instead of adding a link to the blog's main page from archive pages, I made all blog pages have links to the main page from the blog title. There is no longer any JavaScript.
- There were some typos in my modified header that I cleaned up. These included a double-word occurrence of "Jason" and a missing ":" after a source-control label.
- I moved the description to the sidebar in front of my profile.
- I made everything below the profile on the sidebar right-justified, as is my general preference.
- I removed the dummy links that were in the original template, leaving the Google one for now.
- I moved the blogger badge and the information about the RSS feed to the sidebar also.
The new template previews correctly. Making this post will apply it to the main page, this individual post, and the archive page that this post is part of. Older posts have not been republished. They will continue to be formatted under the previous template, unless they are republished by me or as the result of a comment. I also backed up the blog to my development system before making the change on Blogger.
I believe there are extraneous cascading style-sheet (CSS) definitions in the <head> section of the template, and I will distill it down gradually. It is nice that there are no external style sheets, but I want to simplify what is sent to the browser even more.
The development of the fire drill and incident-handling materials is going to go slowly, and I will make more template changes when I need a respite from that and from content-creation activities.
Labels: blogging, construction, nfoWorks
