Lo and behold, I haven’t posted a thing for almost half a year! I haven’t been completely idle though, despite visible evidence to the contrary, and want to make a small update to stop this blog feed peacefully passing in it’s sleep.

Even though I said I wouldn’t I’ve been dipping in and out of web-dev over the last several months. Not because I wanted to, but because creating a content for this site is a bit of a mess. Although WordPress has a post editor, the way I went about making my custom theme effectively made the UI useless. So anytime I want to post something here requires writing a lot of raw HTML, which is a double punch of being slow and prone to errors.

Getting post creation to be purely UI based is beyond my abilities, but I wanted to at least make things a bit easier. Starting with the worst meant dealing with the gallery element, and a week later I have something that is just a little easier to work with. Instead of typing out this…

<div id='test1'>
    <nav>
        <ul>
            <li class='nav_NUM_1'> 
                <img src='imgTab.jpg' width='100' height='100'>
            </li>
            <li class='nav_NUM_2'> 
                <img src='vidTab.jpg' width='128' height='72'>
            </li>
            <li class='nav_NUM_3'> 
                <img src='htmlTab.jpg' width='100' height='100'>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
    <section class='content_NUM_1'>
        <img src='imgTab.jpg' width='100' height='100'>
    </section>
    <section class='content_NUM_2'>
        <video width='128' height='72' poster='vidTab.jpg' controls>
            <source src='vidTab.mp4' type='video/mp4'>
        </video>
    </section>
    <section class='content_NUM_3'>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
    </section>
</div>

…I use a few lines of shortcode to get the same result.

[tabs id="example" type="thumbTAB" shadow="true"]
    [imgTab src="imgTab.jpg" width="100" height="100"]
    [vidTab poster="vidTab.jpg" src="vidTab.mp4" width="128" height="72"]
    [htmlTab poster="htmlTab.jpg" width="100" height="100"]
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
    [/htmlTab]
[/tabs]

Which is quite nice to have finished, even if there’s still a ton of stuff left to do. But for now i’ll sign off with a few unrelated drawings I did recently. ’till next time~