Me: Oh, let me change the theme, it won’t that big of a deal. time passes Me: Six hours isn’t bad, right? So, yes: I did change a few colors. And the font, and the entire theme. And I made a colophon page and managed to actually code it in properly. Which is pretty exciting, not gonna lie. Anyhow. I’m sure some things look funky and I didn’t notice....
It has been a week here. I have: successfully wrangled custom radio button hover and focus states the html radio buttons were offset from the custom ones and moving them helped the hover happen in the right places I am still mad at whoever originally coded the component, though got a chunk of coding done for the mobile version of the site footer the desktop version is good to go, but I have a few more bootstrap/flexbox things to figure out helped a user regain access to their account using nothing more than an old photograph of their phone’s screen and a vague list of tasks....
So here I am, in the wee hours of the morning, having frittered away the last 7 hours of my life on a few “quick” updates to the site. Except I kept thinking of new ways to do things or fixing errors with the style sheets to the point where, except for the general layout and the little cactus icon up there (which is going to be replaced soon, I swear), it’s basically a whole new theme....
The spaghetti that is this site’s CSS is really something else–to the point where using the override files just doesn’t work because there’s so much stuff squirreled away in different places and it all takes different precedence. I’ve made a kanban board for the things I want to do and a bunch of them include “refactor and consolidate X, Y, or Z.” I suspect that when I’m done, it’ll be an entirely new template....
Today’s been a day of a lot of ridiculous all over the board. ...