I was working with the CoolMenus menu system by Thomas Brattli earlier. Although the script is an excellent piece of work, trying to use CSS to control the display of it is pure hell. You have to go directly into the code to modify a large part of the way the menu is displayed, and that’s simply not an acceptable approach to the particular problem that I happened to be facing; the client wants to be able to alter the content of the menu. Brattli’s menus are absolutely positioned, and therefore cannot be put into the flow of a liquid page.

After searching SourceForge.net unsuccessfully (SourceForge is where I usually end up finding solutions to my problems, it’s a great place), Google finally yielded a workable solution to me found at Juicy Studio by Gez Lemon. A link to the working demo of the menus is here. Thank you, Gez! You’ve saved me from using Javascript and writing my own

I’ve switched over from TextPattern to something called “WordPress” in the hope that I don’t have to go deep into the .php code to display a list of recent links where I want to display them. If somebody who uses TextPattern wants to try to convince me otherwise, I encourage you — please do. You can find a link to WordPress on the right side of this page.

Oh. One more thing. It looks like all of the dates on the previous posts have become befuddled. *growls* Darnit! That’s what I get for switching

No biggie, I hadn’t posted much yet anyway.