Monsieur Smartypants

Okay, The Tick vs. Reno, Nevada is far from my favourite from Season Two (that would be Grandpa Wore Tights, with its brilliantly hilarious parody of Golden Age heroes), but the title seemed appropriate. After a hiatus of a few weeks I’m back at work on my site redesign, and making good progress. I’ve got a pretty good structure for the blog and assorted pages, though there are still some open questions and many tweaks to be done. And, I’ve started looking at customising my photo galleries. Yes, it can be done. The trick is that Gallery doesn’t use pure PHP scripts like WordPress, but Smarty templates, which I’m not familiar with. URL rewriting, another one of my worries, is also possible–I found a plugin for it–but it’s not working quite like I want it to. I may have to hack the .htaccess myself. That’s all right, though. As I said before, learning new technologies is part of why I’m doing this. The other part–and the real challenge–is to go beyond what I have now, not just give my old styles a new paint job while adding obvious features like comments. Which I already knew. But damn, it’s hard to be creative when I’m still figuring out the tools to be creative with.