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October 3, 2005

I haven’t posted much to this blog in the last few weeks. That’s in part because I’ve been posting to other blogs. It’s in part been because there are no icons above the post when I edit, so I have to hand-code (or import from elsewhere) any links, formatting, or other html I need. That’s been the case for a few weeks now.

Another reason is because the main thing I’ve been doing with this blog is maintaining a list of WPMU hosts. I do that in the sidebar (and, as I posted recently, with an RSS feed from del.icio.us).

I wanted to reflect that by using a theme that had two columns, with the sidebar on the left (i.e. a theme that makes the sidebar more prominent than do most themes, which put the sidebar on the right). So I looked for one under Presentation in the Site Admin for this blog.

I find that Presentation shows me an image for only a few of the themes available at EduBlogs. So, in order to see if a theme meets my current criterion (i.e. sidebar on the left) I select it and then view the site. I find that many of the themes put all the links together. In the case of this blog, it means that the regular Blogroll and the list of WPMU themes get mixed up together.

James, I know that you are very busy, but when you see this, perhaps you could comment or email to let me know, and we can talk about these things?

This entry was posted on October 3, 2005 at 2:16 pm and is filed under EduBlogs, ThisBlog.


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2 Responses to “WPMU Hosts, esp. this one”

  1.   James Says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 5:30 am

    Hiya,

    *Hopefully* icons are all working swimmingly now!

    Can’t help much more with the themes thing, somewhat annoyingly this seems to have fallen off the radar a bit… but y’never know.

    I’m in pretty much the same boat as these guys: http://donncha.wordpress.com/2005/09/23/wordpresscom-faq/

    However I can, eventually, get a lot of screen grabs for the themes, which as you rightly say are needed… in the menatime you can select one from here and I’ll upload it if you want.

    I’m also more than happy to upload a theme that you have edited to fit your needs, yep it ‘aint a sustainable approach at the moment but it’s a step in teh right direction.

    Cheers, James

  2.   Andrew Says:
    October 6th, 2005 at 9:17 am

    Icons working now – thanks! And I see an “upload photos” area of the Write Post page that I don’t think was there before.
    Thanks for the offer on the theme – that ball is now in my court.
    James, please don’t let this get in the way of some well-earned rest. Don’t be a hippo, have a holiday!