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http://wonderwinds.com is QP-driven ... sorta. Unfortunately it is a bit mutated from real QP. Mutations that I now have to undo to get back to real QP. Some of the mutations are slowly getting into core, others probably never will. Heck maybe that is something I can work on today - catalog the diffs and start correcting them.
Anyway it is pretty much normal. US Highway theme cuz I'm a truck driver now. Currently sitting in a terminal waiting for a bunch of monkeys to maybe try to fix an electrical problem, so I got some time to kill...
My safety cones on the bottom didn't work so well. They're okay on a permalink page, but obviously not right on a multipost page or a disp=foo page. Dunno about a page-page... Also I'm still not too happy about the white text on black background. I'm forcing a font that helps, but tinkering in that area I didn't ever get to something I thought was easy on the eyes. Oh well eh? Oh and I have an awesome big rig silhouette that is too wide for the sidebar but seriously needs to get into play. So maybe that's what I'll play with today.
Anyway it is pretty much normal. US Highway theme cuz I'm a truck driver now. Currently sitting in a terminal waiting for a bunch of monkeys to maybe try to fix an electrical problem, so I got some time to kill...
- A custom plugin to make a little interstate sign out of my end-of-day location, direction, & mileage. I reckon this one will never see the light of day because it is very much specific to this template and my job.
- The font for the header and sidebar titles is the real US Highway font. I sort of guessed at which weight (or whatever they call it) to use for different locations based on viewability instead of how the highway system uses them.
- The colors used are, to the best of my ability, the real colors from the highway system. The problem there is that they do pantone colors - not html - and I found a couple of different opinions about what each color actually converts to. Oh well eh?
- The bullets for lists are spec signs shrunk down really small. I found a bunch of pdf files from the official highway act website but haven't used them as much as I wanted to.
- Oh and I have a plugin that automagically resizes images I upload to a width more appropriate for inline use. Haven't released that one due to QP still has a problem with multiple instances of a plugin - it doesn't automagically generate a new code and title for the plugin, so the second instance won't actually run and both carry the same title on the plugins page. This plugin clearly should allow multiple instances, so we need a core change for this to be released publicly.
My safety cones on the bottom didn't work so well. They're okay on a permalink page, but obviously not right on a multipost page or a disp=foo page. Dunno about a page-page... Also I'm still not too happy about the white text on black background. I'm forcing a font that helps, but tinkering in that area I didn't ever get to something I thought was easy on the eyes. Oh well eh? Oh and I have an awesome big rig silhouette that is too wide for the sidebar but seriously needs to get into play. So maybe that's what I'll play with today.
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