Comments on: The new-look Tally Room

By: Nick C

Nick C — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:01:27 +0000

Suppose I could but i think my previous comment probably sums it up well. I wasn’t really paying the required level of attention to be writing at length about it. I’ll have a go at it a little later and email you whatever I come up with.

By: Ben Raue

Ben Raue — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:47:14 +0000

Hamish, the recent posts and recent comments widgets are now at the bottom of the blog. However I am considering changes so may move them somewhere else when I get around to it.

Nick, would you like to write something about Canada? I might have time to write about Glasgow but don’t really know anything about Canada.

By: Hamish Coffee

Hamish Coffee — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:45:29 +0000

Looks great Ben, though I did like the ‘recent posts’ bit in the old version; makes it easy to follow what people are talking about.

Enjoying your blog. Thanks.

By: Nick C

Nick C — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:28:55 +0000

There were a couple of noteworthy things about the Canadian by-elections the other day. The NDP comfortably retained New Westminster–Coquitlam in BC, which has been a marginal riding against the Tories. The Tories had a gain from the BQ in Montmagny–L’Islet–Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup, but I didn’t read any of the background there so don’t know whether it was expected or not. BQ held the other seat in Quebec, and the Tories regained the seat of the Tory-turned-Independent Bill Casey in NS. The Green Party didn’t do all that well, best result being 4.3% in BC. She seemed like a good candidate from what I saw of her in the preview show I watched, so it’s a shame she didn’t do better.

By: Ben Raue

Ben Raue — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:14:58 +0000

I haven’t planned anything but might do it tonight if I have time, thanks for reminding me.

By: Nick C

Nick C — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:12:23 +0000

Hey, you gonna have time to write about the Glasgow North-East by-election? It’s a curious field of candidates.

Or people can just read about it for themselves here:
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles/glasgownortheast

By: Ben Raue

Ben Raue — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:57:37 +0000

Thanks Nick, you’re right about that, I’ve already done that in one way and that’s how I previously fixed the menus issue.

I’m just looking for the right fix.

By: Nick C

Nick C — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:48:12 +0000

Hey Ben, WordPress is a little more advanced now than the version I was working with in 2005, but when I set up a blog back then I was struggling to find a theme that had the right set of features I wanted (you didn’t have the same options to customize themes back then, you were basically stuck with what the designer of the theme put together), so I ended up going into the php files and managed to figure out relatively easily how to remove the bits I didn’t want by deleting the relevant section of code (and I have no programming experience). You may be able to do the same if you haven’t tried that already, though hopefully someone can point you more directly to what you’re looking for so you don’t need to spend time figuring it out.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:01:23 +0000

I think it looks awesome, it is v. easy to navigate

By: Ben Raue

Ben Raue — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:49:10 +0000

Yeah I know about the drop-down boxes. In this new theme they don’t actually run into each other, but if anyone knows how to fix it let me know, the old fix only applied to that theme.