I’ve got my second job tonight, more wireless networking, it seems to be quite a popular thing. I’ve also printed out myself a short run of business cards, I did them on thick photo paper and they look great.
Lauren’s coming to stay for a few days tomorrow, so less internet for me 
Say hello to TeaBass.com
This is going to be my personal website now that Fishbitt.com is becoming the website for my new business venture. There are still quite a few little things I have to finish, like the styles for comments and single pages.
This is the first wordpress theme I have created from scratch, it’s really quite easy. I designed a sign page in XHTML and CSS then copied sections of the code into header and footer php files along with some wordpress tags to generate a number of things, then put “the loop” in the middle part (index.php) and tweaked a few of the tags to get it how I want it.
It’s lacking in content at the moment, but visually everything is finished, the speech bubble at the side is going to show only my most recent post in the “thoughts” category, kind of like a tumblelog, which you can view here: http://teabass.com/category/thoughts/, the main area, where you are reading this, will be for longer articles and posts with more structure and time put into them.
I’m still trying to work out where to put my flickr photos… any ideas?
You may have also notice a few special links around the page; “About”, “Extras” and “More”, these links activate a little bit of javascript and make hidden divs unhidden, have a go! I wanted a clean look to the site, but to still have functionality where needed. So all the validation, admin and wordpress links are hidden away in the extras div.
So it goes without saying that Javascript is required for this site, if you turn off JS and come to Teabass you will see a little message telling you to turn on Javascript to get the most out of the site.
On the same theme, if you can, try viewing TeaBass in IE6. You’ll notice a nice little message to all the IE users telling them to get firefox. If you can’t get to IE, you can see the message if you look at the source code of this page.
Despite my message, I’m sure there will be some people who can’t or don’t want to switch, so I have made Teabass look exactly the same in IE as Firefox. It took a little bit of time and caused some confusion but I did it, you’ll need javascript as the speech bubble is done with pngs… IE6 doesn’t do them well, so I’ve put in a bit of javascript to force properly PNG support. If your using IE6 with Javascript disabled the site won’t be at its best!
I’ll be filling out the content in the next couple days, and posting about “Project R” and how I’m getting on with setting up my business.
I want to stress that Teabass will be a journal, rather than a blog.
I feel at the moment “blog” does not sum up my style of writing. I’ve been doing many posts about me and personal thoughts and “blogs” imply to me that you should post useful articles and opinions on current tech news, I’m not really into that at the moment.
Loads of people are already doing and doing it very well, I don’t think I need to do that to with my site anymore.
So if you see anything broken or have any suggestions for Teabass they are more than welcome.
Quick test thought
Teabass is the blog of Andrew Nesbitt, a Developer and Designer based in London, UK.
