{"id":5,"date":"2008-07-26T02:48:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevware.wordpress.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-07-26T02:48:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T10:48:17","slug":"lots-of-site-work-the-past-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/lots-of-site-work-the-past-few-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of site work the past few days!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent a huge amount of time the past few days redoing the code for the pages on my website.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been many years since I created this particular version, and it really showed when you looked at the code.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t effective use of styles, way too many tables, bad formatting&#8230; the list could go on.\u00a0 So I made some cosmetic changes to the existing page graphics and then did a total layout update using divs and better styles.\u00a0 Also implemented better use of include pages and for the first time, a master page.\u00a0 Finally I&#8217;m able to make large-scale changes to my site by changing 3 or 4 files.\u00a0 Who knew?!?!?!? LOL<\/p>\n<p>The thing that took the longest time to figure out was the mailform for my contact page.\u00a0 I had been using a pretty decent one&#8230;or so I thought.\u00a0 But the validation wasn&#8217;t working properly.\u00a0 And the confirmation page was created from within the php file throught the PRINT &#8221; method.\u00a0 And because I didn&#8217;t want to go blind figuring out how to make my newly-structured pages could be done in that manner, I used PHP Form Magic to create the base form with the fields I wanted and validation.\u00a0 Then I customized the validation html.\u00a0 Turned out pretty well I think.<\/p>\n<p>The next step will be adding in the Galleries and Media sections.\u00a0 UGH!!!!!!!\u00a0 Wish me luck.\u00a0 I&#8217;m gonna need it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent a huge amount of time the past few days redoing the code for the pages on my website.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been many years since I created this particular version, and it really showed when you looked at the code. There wasn&#8217;t effective use of styles, way too many tables, bad formatting&#8230; the list &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/lots-of-site-work-the-past-few-days\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-5","6":"format-standard","7":"category-general-stuff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevware.com\/geek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}