Kubric is such a beautiful template! Alas, I don’t want a pointer to his site in the footer of every page, and when I found the following thread on his site titled Villagers Demand Credit, I realized that I was not willing to comply with his wishes. I would have been happy to put a single post up, like this post, announcing the template I used or modified and granted source credit to him. Alas, that is not what he asked for.

Moving on, months earlier I’d downloaded another WordPress template named Trident, a basic three-column layout for another project: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/Trident/index.php. During the day as I was picking through the CSS and making minor changes to font presentation, margin placements and such, I realized the logic of the CSS was confusing to me.

So, I’ve loaded up Rubric, the same template I used on Barbara’s site, from Alex King’s Template Competition.

It’s the end of the day, and I’d really like to tweak it some, but for now it will have to do. It presents a nice, clean, readable page for aging readers like myself who no longer have youthful vision. Since I’ve altered this template before, I know that the CSS layout is logical (to my mind).

No more coffee, not until tomorrow morning.

On edit, 02–7-2005: Rubric is no longer the template used on this site, nor is the site based upon it, today the template and CSS were changed. I still like Rubric, I just wanted a slightly different look, and 3-columns. I made a posting where you can read more about it.

The first step I’ve made with this blog was to install the captcha named AuthImage, a well regarded spam-bot blocker. Instructions in the readme file were clear and concise. AuthImage’s homepage is: http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376

What the program does is load an image with graphically embedded characters onto the comment submission page, those numbers in turn need to be correctly entered by the person making the comment. The presumption is that most spambots don’t have optical character recognition (OCR) routines, so they can’t easily place their droppings on your blog: only other humans can comment. Unfortunately, it also prevents visually impaired people from placing a comment.

It occurred to me that maybe I should wait until there is some comment spam before I worry about blocking spambots, however the experience of other sites I’ve helped with suggests the need for AuthImage’s functionality at some point in time is inevitable.

That’s one item off the to-do list and time to pour another cup of coffee.

Edit of 5/14/2005: Currently AuthImage is removed. When I upgraded to WordPress 1.5, I wanted to see how comment spam was with the new system.