Well, now that my blog-home is back into some semblance of order, I thought I'd highlight some of the changes I've been making. Back in early January I updated the actual design of this site, but wasn't sure how to customize specific category templates. So I took a step back, ignored the little problem for the time being and focused my energies elsewhere.

Well, I finally sat down this weekend to tackle the little problem. What I wanted was to have the sidebar content change depending upon the category that's chosen. Turns out there's no way to natively do that with Movable Type, but there are some PlugIns that can be installed and tweaks that can be used to customize the category templates. Of course, things aren't quite as straightforward as I would have liked and I ended up using a couple different hacks to get the results I wanted... No elegant code writing for this girl! But no matter. It works, and that's what matters.

So, as of this morning, I now have different sidebar content for the Miss Yorkie Princess, Chef Zee and Knitting categories.

Click the links, people, and behold the power of MODULES!!!

I'm especially pleased with the knitting category page, since I found a page describing how to make fun little progress bars for each of my projects! Yippee!!!

Of course, now that I've done all this tweaking, I've decided I'm not happy with the design anymore. Ugh... so I'll be updating that again shortly. But right now it all works and I've got to turn my attention back to school and other matters; so for now this will have to do. Let me know what you think!