ownage

A recent flurry of activity has led me to the decision to invest some time and effort into facelifting and rejuvenating OWNAGE.
The most important part will be the reworking of the design to bring OWNAGE into line with the “new” OWN INDUSTRIES Brand Identity, this will involve site wide changes to graphics and logos.
To improve [...]

Finished various parts:

css changes to right sidebar placement (moved away from content)
Browser Links section in right sidebar redone (html cleaned up new images)
search error and 404 custom message
added postspacer image (nifty)
changed header image (still not 100% happy)
lots of fiddly php css tweakings that are just geeky so I won´t go into em here

Here is what [...]

Stage one of the ownage facelift is completed.

Fixed the width problems by “fixing” the content and sidebars and centering them – those strange people using an 800×600 screen resolution are beyond my help.

my screen…

standard…

old fashioned…

In addition to fixing width and layout problems there has been some extensive reworking of the css [...]

ownage will be undergoing a few changes in the next few days, if you are one of the few who randomly make it here and bother reading this stuff don´t be irritated by funny colors and formatting tests. I am documenting blog theme customization process for wordpress and need to work on the fly and [...]

Ownage: Werk In Progress…
I thought it was about time to stop being so precious about what and when I post new ownage stuff here- from now on I will be posting various pieces from early stages onwards until the finished version is declared.

so without any more ado ::

looks like i got the NGG plugin working; this involved some hefty research,  ”on the fly” server configs to force php version from 4 to 5 and a htaccess file to set permissions…

NGG plugin now correctly returns memory errors if image is too large (instead of just “looping”) on the create thumbnails screen. Additional bonuses: [...]

I remember a pretty talented developer once told me “never fix a working system” (or something like that) well I wish I had listened… After taking a look at my SQL DB I was convinced that it would be better if I made a few tweaks here and changed a couple of things there, not [...]