Site Work

I ran into a little problem earlier and it took me almost an hour to track down the issue. The title images I was trying to test on the site had glowing borders around them for some reason. It completely ruined the look, so I had to fix them.

Getting rid of that glow effect took a lot longer than it should have, and I got caught up making other changes while doing it. Divi let’s you edit on the front end of the site now, but it also lets you apply customized themes to individual pages. This is a double edged sword that always cuts backwards first if you’re used to working on the back end. Not everything works the same way and not all the same options are present, so things can get confusing really quickly.

I couldn’t find the image controls until I went deep into the back end because the Records page has its own ‘content’ settings as well as a specific page them. I thought the image settings were in the former, but later I found them on the page theme itself. The images are part of the post content itself so this left me confused for a bit.

Don’t get me wrong, Divi’s powerful and looks great once you get going, but certain aspects of it are convoluted. At least the fact that there were certain options I couldn’t even find helped me narrow down the problem. Everything makes sense now but at the time it was a bit frustrating.

This isn’t a Divi review, so let’s move on.

Lydia’s Golden Treasury

I’m making progress, but I’ve got a sneaking suspicion the last few days of December are going to be really rough for me. I’m not even sure I’ll be able to get that article done, but I’ll take some time to at least iron out an outline tomorrow. Maybe tonight actually.

I’d say I’m around a quarter done with the Chronicles of Proxima, which isn’t great, but it’s not terrible, either. It’s pretty close to the usual really. I tend to hammer out a third of each chapter within the last few days of the month, so it’s not time to panic, yet.

What I really need to do is start scene hopping and filling out a skeleton. Proxima’s giving me trouble because the repercussions of Chapter 3 are being partly covered at the beginning of Chapter 4. The Chronicles of Proxima haven’t even been mentioned yet; that’s just how much space Chapter 3’s aftermath is eating up. It’s funny but it’s making it hard to hone in on Chapter 4’s point and purpose … not to mention the titular item(s).

I’ll figure it out, just thought I’d leave an update up.

One More Thing

I remade an Artorius logo I had sitting around some years ago last night and put that up to see how it looks. Looks great by the way. Artorius isn’t anywhere near finished. Nothing’s published on the site, so the logo isn’t a link, it’s just an image. Lydia’s Golden Treasury and the Fleeing Victory logos should take you straight to the pages the old links did, though.

Going forward I’m going to make as many logos as I can for the stories listed in the Records, but only some of them will have links. I’ll try to think of a way to make it obvious at a glance which ones are clickable and which ones aren’t. Maybe a filter would do the trick. We’ll see.

That’s all for now.