Chyrp

…Being the new blogging script this site is runing on (whoooot!).

Why the move?

• I like messing around with things.
• Anything else is a bonus.

Chyrp vs Tumblr

I saw this comparison a lot, and on installation it’s obvious – just like Tumblr, you have options of posting a video, text, etc. Providing this means I can customise what each post is going to look like, I’ll drop Tumblr completely. Let’s face it: the only ones who’d visit my Tumblr are already visiting the blog, so I may as well combine the two.

Making the theme

Briefly googling Chyrp, I found people marvelling about how lightweight the script is… and complaining about how tricky making a theme is. I only know XHTML and CSS. My experience of PHP extends only to copying/pasting snippets of code (PHP includes FTW!)… This was going to get ugly.

I spent the night staring down the default theme’s coding, seeing how it incorporated the script, and after much fiddling had it all sorted. The coding’s quite dreadful, and there are a lot of things I need to smooth out first, before I officially use it (hence the default theme!). Still, it’s no harder than I anticipated when first installing Chyrp.

Things to do

I’ll cross them off when they’re done~!

1. Fix RSS, add link
2. Check layout in other browsers (long story, but I can’t do this until January heheh)
3. Move all posts from Tumblr and FanUpdate (the old blogging script) to Chyrp.
4. Get comments module to work..
5. Clean up stylesheet. Validate coding.

And in the meantime, there is my Twitter for general updates and all that jazz~