ChrisBunting.com

I’m loving these WordPress plugins! The good thing is I’m able to add the functionality I want, but it distracts me from working on what I really want to change, and that’s the appearance of the site. Someday I’ll get around to it, but for now I’m just having way too much fun with the plugins.

I’ve added the WeatherIcon2 plugin to show the local weather and other information. I had to modify the weather icons because STUPID MICROSOFT won’t and hasn’t added functionality into IE to render PNG files properly. I changed the background from an alpha transparency to solid white. This causes a problem since my sidebar on the main page does not have a white background. Oh well.

I also added the DonkieQuote plugin to pull random quotes from a database to insert at very bottom of the page. I’ve added the 100+ quotes that I have, and hope to add more as I stumble across ones that I find entertaining or educational.

Lastly, I added some more dates to the Countdown database (sorry Jen). I have some plans for modifying the output of the list to make it appear a little cleaner, but it’s somewhat complicated (for an amateur coder like myself) so I might not get around to it for a while, if at all. I’d like to change the date format to MM/DD, but also format the information in a table to keep the dates and information properly aligned. I think it would also make it easier to read what is happening on any given date.

UPDATE: Microsoft responds! (well, not to me…)