Sunday, March 13, 2005

I finally got around to adding stylized headers over there in the sidebar. And you may have noticed that the link color has changed - with the blue headers, the blue links kind of got lost ... although the visited links are blue, but will affect me the most, I think.

What is fantastic about EE (and I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I love this particular feature) is that with the global variables I didn’t have to make that many changes to all of the templates for the headers - most of them are embedded in their global variable so it was one line of code that got changed just one time. Sweet!

For non-EE users what this means is that for every section in the sidebar there is an individual global variable. Embedded in the main templates is a simple {code} line (and it really is just that little tidbit) in the place where that information goes. What’s great is that for the pages that have those sections, I just put that little snippet. When I make a change (say, to update the books I’m reading and have on deck), I just change the variable and it updates on all pages. Very cool.

If you’re thinking of making a blogware switch, I encourage you to take a serious look at Expression Engine. It’s an excellent product that is very easy to use. And I have yet to be comment spammed or trackback spammed. It’s well worth the money.