Some updates on progress

I’ve been going pretty hardcore on this site for the last day or two and learned a lot in the process. Let’s cover some of the hacking I’ve done:

• Installed, styled and troubleshot the dropdowns above via the Multi-level Navigation Plugin
• After trying it in several places, finally decided my flickr photostream would look best in the footer. Styled it so that it doesn’t look broken; still a ways to go with that. That’s been a real bear.
• Added lightbox functionality to my Photos page and my flickr photos tagged with “site.” Tried and tried again to get this integrated in the footer instead of the flickr badge but couldn’t seem to get it quite right. One problem is my footer’s not “widgetized” so the flickr Gallery plugin I’m using doesn’t work because it’s based on shortcodes.
• Added some blogroll items.
• Wrote some content (to be published at a later date).

Next steps related to the above:

• A couple troubleshooting items with my dropdowns. Sometimes they disappear on me…that should probably be fixed.
• Get some cool lightbox functionality going in the footer. I’m afraid this is going to involve more PHP than I really want to deal with…
• Figure out the smartest way of integrating catagories onto their own pages…
• Write more content.