ShadowReality

I’m still working on my first wordpress theme, and since I’ve been working on it so much I thought I’d write a bit in here like a developer diary.

First off, I thought that developing a wordpress theme word be a little difficult/fiddly, I wanted to make it strict XHTML and a table-less build using as much CSS as I could, to make things a bit more bulletproof. It turns out all those wordpress tags and functions are easy as pie, its the CSS browser rendering that ultimatly will kill you.

By that I mean making it look the same in Firefox , Internet Explorer 6 & Internet Exploroer 7. I remember reading on A List Apart, that CSS can often be like Whack-A-Mole, As soon as you fix one thing, another problem pops up in the other browser, and so far I’ve been hitting the shit out of my CSS, metaphoricaly speaking.

I know there are shortcuts around this, but I am unwilling to comprimise my design for the sake of easier and quicker css, if there is a way I will find it in the end. So thats what I’ve been doing, I think im on track for it being changed across at the weekend, I’m looking forward to it.