Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been posting very long (sometimes too long that I had to split them up in several posts) articles, that I wrote ten years ago, over at my swedish site. That mean lots of content, paragraphs and headings split up over five or ten pages per post. So I was in desperate mode to create table of contents to ease navigation and provide better overview for my visitors.
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I have made my swedish translation for Sandbox available as sv_SE.po and sv_SE.mo. You only need the later unless you intend to modify the translation.
Even if you are using english as standard on your blog, you can still benefit from gettext to modify some wordings without changing any of the template files. For the purpose of demonstration I’ve uploaded the en_US.po and en_US.mo I’m using on this very blog as examples.
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I have not yet been looking for a navigation link plugin for WordPress. But I imagine I can do one just as quickly myself rather than sift through a zillion plugins that all do the same thing in addition to suffering from bad cases of optionitis.
Right now in addition to the usual rel-stylesheet (for CSS) rel-alternate (for RSS feeds) and rel-pingback (for pingbacks) there are also a rel-start resource link in the header pointing to the home page of the blog.
Here are some additional relational resource links and types to consider.
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For a day or two I have been whining about Sandbox on Andy and Scott’s blogs and in my gettext post. Why? Because I recently “jumped on the Sandbox bandwagon”. Making me boast to friends that I’d switched to a theme that made the site look exactly like as before! While they were staring at me in a way I only could interpret as awe.
The theme really reinvigorated my interest in designing for WordPress since it bring a lot of power to the CSS while giving you harsh constrains on the markup (constrains are good, too many choices result in angst, limitations release creativity). And Sandbox do have the promise of becoming the CSS Zen Garden of WordPress.
So I have decided to collect all my Sandbox “issues” and track theme here in this post.
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I guess this, my English site, will become more and more about web design and development in general with an occasional humor piece split in for good measure, while I spend more time covering philosophy, history, writing and film making in swedish.
One of my personal goals is to become a better writer overall. So on with that webby thingy then…
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I’ve done a translation of the Sandbox theme for my swedish section of the site using the GNU gettext tools. It’s pretty simple.
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I think I just found some stylesheet issue with the Kubrick CSS. It is fully possible I introduced the problem myself, but I don’t think so mainly because a) I can’t recall touching any of the affected rules and b) I’ve experienced the same problem on other sites.
What I’m talking about is the font size in Opera 9 on GNU/Linux PPC compared to Opera 9 on GNU/Linux x86 and Firefox on both platforms. The later two cases render the site as the designer intended, while the first render it with xx-small as standard font (or something). It is possible the dpi difference between x86 and my iBook comes into play, and Firefox fixes it somehow while Opera don’t… I don’t know… I’m confused.
Well it isn’t an issue I’m planning to investigate and fix right now. My long term plan is to switch from WordPress and Kubrick to my own design and software anyway. So if the issue pop up its ugly head in the future, then I might be inclined to deal with it.