Propaganda Party: The Pop Stalin Design Manifesto

New curtains, fresh coat of paint and some general spring cleaning brings about Manifesto ‘09; the yearly redesign of my blog. There are still a few things that I need to take care of tomorrow (later today) but it’s 99.9% completed. I have to play some more with the branding area because it’s not displaying as it should and I had to implement a quick fix for the time being. You’ll notice there are some issues with the drop shadow… that’s the quick fix I had to throw up there.

For whatever reason, the div (which is actually an h1 tag, didn’t want to center in IE7 and when I finally got it to center, then it wouldn’t go the whole way across the screen. It stopped at the edges of the #wrapper container… which is odd because the branding graphic isn’t even inside the #wrapper container. I’m sure I’m missing something simple but I’m too tired to find it right now.

I plan on writing about my experience with the coding of the site and what I had to do as far as custom loops and such to “bend” WordPress to my will. Of course, I was pretty sure a few times WordPress was bending me to its will.

If you come across anything out of place in IE7 or 8, please let me know. I don’t have access to anything but IE7 and though I tried some of the free browser services online they can only help so much. Funny enough, after I decided that I wasn’t going to support IE 6, I had to create a special stylesheet just for IE7 because the navigation was 1 pixel off in Explorer. Gotta love it.