Speed, Themes, Snow, Oh My!
There’s a lot of things going on this morning at… 8:02 AM on this (not so) lovely Friday morning, so I’ve decided to do something I hate to do. I’m going to make a list of topics that will all be contained in this post! Here it is:
- Hosting Speed is Coming Back!
- Theme due out Yesterday, delayed.
- Snow + Ice * lots = Two days off.
Hosting Speed is Coming Back!
Finally, Dreamhost is really starting to look up. Not only did they released a new version of their admin panel, but the speed on my server is starting to come back! Hopefully this means no more 20 second load times for a very long time. In fact, I’d take never if that was possible. I would prefer downtime every now and then over some of the ridiculous load times I’ve had. Hopefully they continue to drop over the next couple of days and everything can go back to running smoothly again.
This isn’t a small page, however, close to 40k. I would imagine that the size comes a lot from the amount of text on the homepage at any given time, but I’m going to look into cutting some file sizes down, and hopefully that will contribute to my goal of having every page load fully in under a second. I really don’t want to change hosts because of speed because DreamHost has been really good as of late. Maybe I could get an in-host server change? I’ll think about that.
Update: Oh no! I totally put the whammy on my self! I’m getting 40 second load times now! Ahhh!
Theme due out Yesterday, delayed.
Secondly, scheduled for a March 1st release (yesterday) the new three column WordPress theme I have in the works has been delayed until I get it done! I honestly haven’t started it, but I do have the static XHTML/CSS page, but no WP theme yet. I’ll have a lot of time today (explained in the next *section*), but I don’t know if I’ll get around to it. I’m doing a lot of things, including a lot of nothing, but I have an idea that I’m trying to wrap up the design for, and it could totally be the next big web 2 startup. But what are the odds, right?
Another contributing fact to the WP theme delay was my total and complete failure to make my pre-release plugin work. I did everything according to the Codex, and the PHP was good, but for some reason it just doesn’t show up in the admin panel, in the little tab that was supposed to be created.
Snow + Ice * lots = Two days off.
Lastly, the weather here in good ol’ Southern Ontario has been pretty nasty, but enough to score everyone in the region two days off of school, not to mention the four day weekend that creates. The only price to pay is shovelling once or twice :P. I got quite a bit accomplished yesterday, especially for designing things. A third revision of a SitePoint Contest template, fixing some IE bugs elsewhere, and of course the aforementioned idea that is looking mighty fine.
Today I hope to get some things done, hopefully wrap some stuff up, squash some bugs and maybe write Microsfot an angry letter for IE.
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