© 2006 - 2007 Nicholas Istre.
Banner images © Makoto Shinkai / CoMix Wave
He jests at scars who never felt a wound. -- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"
© 2006 - 2007 Nicholas Istre.
Banner images © Makoto Shinkai / CoMix Wave
He jests at scars who never felt a wound. -- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"
4.7.6
I personally upgraded my own Drupal installation to 5.0, which has a lot of cool new features. I'm really missing the Meta theme, though. Nothing else compared.
Also, I came here through your link from Shamus' site.
Yeah, I've actually started
Yeah, I've actually started up another site for my non-anime stuff at http://www.nickistre.net that's running 5.1 myself. I'm liking the changes so far, especially the administration system. That is so much better organized than what's in 4.7.
But yeah, the Meta theme does rock. Too bad the original developer is refusing to upgrade it for Drupal 5.
Oh, and welcome to my anime weblog! :)
refusing?
Ken is refusing to update? I guess I missed that. I notice that he's been somewhat absent from the theme homepage for the past few months, but I didn't know he was outright refusing to update. Figures. Oh well, toward the end the theme got broken for me anyway. It kept rendering incorrectly near the bottom, where the bottom edge of the sidebar is supposed to overlap with the notebook paper background. I tried various things to fix it, short of a reinstall (which would have erased up my customizations, which I never documented and were thus next to impossible to reproduce), so the theme had to go eventually anyway.
Thanks for the welcome. I used to be a big anime watcher, but I lost interest in the past few years and anime as a body of work is so massive it's intimidating. The last time I followed anime, Chobits was the newest big thing and I was waiting for the last few episodes of Kaze no Yojimbo to air in Japan so I could catch the fansubs. And I was waiting also for Onegai Twins to come out too.
Yeah, this comment seems to
Yeah, this comment seems to suggest that he's not wanting to go near PHP again... It's unfortunate too.
Then again, I'm not so sure I'll be able to port this site over to Drupal 5.1 anyways, as I did some customizing of the theme. Not too much, though. Maybe at a later date, or when Drupal 6 comes out. I kind of like what I have setup, as much as it hits my server...
It's funny you talk about Chobits as if it's very old; though I guess some of my top favorites being around that time period (The Twelve Kingdoms in 2002, Haibane Renmei in 2003, etc.) probably clouds what I think of being old.
Well, yeah, there's lots of anime; I tend to hold the view that 90% of it is crap. And that's after it's been filtered when being imported (Either officially or by fansubs) to the U.S. Though much of it is entertaining crap... :) Truthfully, I tend to not follow the general trends of the anime community. I usually enjoy the weird stuff.
I liked Meta a lot, but in
I liked Meta a lot, but in retrospect it was entirely too much work to set up, and a pain to maintain. There's a lot of little issues that get me, tiny flaws and bugs and what not in the coding that makes the theme do all sorts of weird stuff... and that's before AND after I modified it.
If you want an example, look at your "recent comments" block on the main page. mouse over the "to" in your "yeah, this comment seems to" comment listing, and watch your site start tripping out.
There were lots of other things too. I already mentioned the bottom of my site wasn't rendering correctly. I see you fixed the header image alignment problem with the Meta Black variation. And I'm surprised at some of the customizations you've managed to fit in here... I always had a headache after trying to incorporate new modules into the layout. And don't get me started on the image gallery integration.
Overall, I guess ditching meta was a good thing. I just need to get a less generic theme for my site now, and that's tough because all the other ones seem to have problems with the right sidebar rendering incorrectly, at least on my server for some reason.
also
You know, I think I just remembered a big part of why I stopped watching anime: I found that classic Japanese cinema is much, much more interesting. I gave up on anime around the same time I discovered Akira Kurosawa... and I think I can thank Kaze no Yojimbo for that.