This might be the absolute least possible productive thing I could be doing right now, but I started messing around with this here blog’s Wordpress theme this morning.

I haven’t really changed this site’s look in years. As a matter of fact, the layout it has now is deliberately similar to the last layout it had before it went all-blog, all-the-time. I’m bored. And I think I want to change directions here and start writing actual articles that actual people might want to read. So it seems a good a time as any to freshen up the look.

I think I may have a template that’ll work for me, but I’m going to have to hack on it to make it work- it’s far too generic and cold looking right now. But I don’t want to make it too fussy, or spend a lot of time on it, either. Perhaps I’m asking too much.

Update:…bleh, maybe I won’t update after all. I don’t have the patience anymore to hack on stylesheets, and nothing seems to be working out of the box.

Update Again: A lot of the same themes were working on some of my other domains (I tested them.  It’s good to test.), so I decided to un-install Wordpress, clean up some files left over from years ago, and re-installed fresh. That seemed to solve the problem of all these themes breaking, but I did a lousy job backing up all my stuff, so there are a lot of missing images, and all my Wordpress plugins are missing. Well, at least I have a new fresh theme! I will probably fiddle with it more before I’m done, but so far, so good.

You may have noticed that I did not post a Panda Thursday last week.

I have a deadline on a paying project coming up, so my usual time for Panda Thursday was taken up by that, and I ate through my buffer. But my real problem appears to be that, once I’ve filled up the whole front page of my blog with pandas by posting every Thursday and no other time, I just get sick and tired of drawing pandas.

So what do I do?

Panda Thursday was meant to be an exercise in making sure I’m drawing and posting to my blog at least once a week. I think I can still do that, but be more flexible about it by adding more creatures to more days, and mandating an update of at least one. That’ll keep me from feeling so stagnant after a million pandas.

So, I need some help coming up with creatures. I want to do Monster Monday, Panda Thursday (natch), Fish Friday ( because we used to be Catholic). But what about Tuesday and Wednesday? If you have a suggestion, leave me a comment. The creature doesn’t have to be an alliteration of the day of the week, unless it’s too awesome to pass up.

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Alright! I think we’re in business! If you see something weird just hit ctrl and refresh and hopefully it’ll resolve itself. If it doesn’t, please email me or leave a comment!

I found a good Wordpress theme to tweak and make my own- still working the kinks out and getting some of the doodads like my twitter feed and some other things off of the old site, but I’m already feeling quite at home in my new digs. I’ve been wanting to make the switch over to WordPress for quite some time because of how extensible it is, but my old hosting plan didn’t support any databases (hey it’s cheap, though, right? Yeah, remember what happened back in April? I guess you get what you pay for.)

Anyway, I’m on a shiny new host now, with Control Panel software I’ve actually heard of, and databases and plugins and all kinds of good stuff. I’m going to host all my websites from here- which doesn’t mean much to you guys, but it’s great for me, because the number is growing.

One of the best things that does have bearing on you guys is I’m going to be able to get my old email address back! I haven’t set it up yet, but I probably will look into it before I go to bed. I want spam filters in place before I even think about getting it back in place, y’know?

Anyway, back to work, there’s still lots to do!

If things look funny, refresh your page so you get the new header. Heck, if things don’t look funny, refresh anyway, just in case. What do you think? Snazzy, huh?