Synchronicity in themes
This evening, my new installation of a CMS moved a step closer to sharing its “look” with this blog. I’m not given to changing themes every few days (weeks, months, years) just because another pretty face comes along. Consider me a monogamous theme kind of person. It doesn’t matter that there’s no content in my CMS yet; if it can look like there’s a master plan, then so much the better.
Right now, I’m taking baby steps with Joomla which seems to be one of the more versatile choices available. It only required a few minutes with a graphics editor and some efforts with a well documented CSS file to bring harmony into the disparate world of web interfaces. Apparently I can even integrate a wiki with a few more lines of code. All this and so much more, as the ad copy says. Hours of fun for the whole family. This stuff might be the Lego block of the software world.
In some ways, my efforts have a practical goal. I’m the support person for a professional CMS at work, and it still leaves us shaking our heads. In some ways, there’s too much “seamless integration”, so that when we want to tweak a screen, we don’t know if it means playing with publications, or code, or some other sort of magic as yet unrevealed to our team by the firm that markets the software. I’ll not point any fingers, because it all may be a case of “Error 18”.
Now that the snow is almost all gone, the change in dress code around the city is startling. Shorts, T-shirts, sandals; all out there where parkas ruled only a few short weeks ago. If I were a child, the time might seem long, but now that seasons are part and parcel of my life experience, it seems to be happening very fast. After all, I left my winter boots aside only this morning… 24 C yesterday and me with winter boots on. Just in case the snow suddenly returned or something. That’s fixed now.
