bburky.com

I made a theme for my website now. Well not really, it’s actually a somwhat modified version of scribbish. I based my theme off scribbish because it was very simple and plain while still looking pretty nice. Actually the only parts I modified were the header and the sidebar. It’s really just scribbish with a different layout. I like it.

The header at the top is handwritten. It took a while. I did it with a calligraphy pen. It’s weird how my handwriting can be normally terrible and can actually do calligraphy somewhat. The writing styles that still bear some resemblance to normal handwriting still suck though, like the cursive one in particular. I considered adding a “.com” to one of the bburkys but I ran out of space. It’s still okay though I guess. I also drew the line/rule that is separating the sidebar and the main content of the page.

I’ll probably modify the layout a bit more before I’m done with it. For example, I may actually put something in the sidebar aside from the search field: the only thing there at the moment. I also may recreate some of the pages that were on my old site.

My site

So now Ruby on Rails is officially the coolest web programming language. It's great for quickly making sites while being very powerful too. It definitely beats PHP, which is crap. It's database independent and other cool stuff too.

Currently this blog has whatever Mephisto's default theme is. Mephisto is also pretty cool it seems. It's like the Rails equivalent of Wordpress, except it's on Rails so its better. I need to make or steal a theme for this site. I'd rather make one. It'll be two weeks at least when that happens. I'm leaving for Philmont tomorrow. Ya know, that Boy Scout camp place in New Mexico where you hike up and down mountains more than it's probably good for you? Yeah, that place.

Church site

I also updated my church's site yesterday. It's using the Gullery photo gallery. It's quite possibly the simplest photo gallery system ever, while still being quite cool. The admin pages are all AJAX and cool. You just click the description at the top and it turns into a text field, you type some stuff, click save, and it updates it; the page never fully reloaded. It's all asynchronous and all that stuff that AJAX is. Go check out the photo gallery I set up, or the rest of the site too which was also somewhat updated too.