Happy Chimp » Random chat

New design is live!

Happy Chimp — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:22:52 +0000

Hurrah, just upload my first attempt at a WordPress theme – seems to be working at the moment. Still a lot of very rough edges but the basics are there.

The Xbox Live data is currently querying a test database (so a few hours out of date) – so just need to hook that up to the proper data and we should be good. I’ve written a few notes on it so I’ll publish those in a sec.

The search form on the right is a bit broken for now.

I’ve also removed the Twitter feed – it was quite slow as it was fetching the RSS feed directly on each page request (naughty), so planning on doing a proper job on that before adding it back.

We’re alive! \o/

Happy Chimp — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:11:29 +0000

After a bit of a false start yesterday – we’re back up and running (I think a dodgy plugin fucked something up, so I’ve reinstalled WordPress from scratch to be on the safe side).

This default theme/layout really has to go – it’s next in the (long) list of things to start working on.

The Twitter RSS feed ‘processor’ seems to be working fairly well (although seems to be quite slow displaying updates) – I’ve just dumped it in the header for now, butt ugly but will do for the time being.

Right, going to shut up and start removing some of the default ‘hello world’ crap WordPress comes with by default.