Keith Lord - Online Portfolio

I have been finding lately that the applications I enjoy using seem to loose something upon receiving an upgrade. New features are added, things I would never use (and sometimes wonder if anyone would use) and eventually the neat little application becomes this bloated thing that just doesn’t inspire me to use any more. I am sure I am not the only one who feels this, infact I know I am not, one of the key points to Zenphoto being created was an answer to the bloated gallery software you find floating around.

I have been having this issue with Wiki software, a lot of it is insanely bloated and just a pain to use. Now I can understand that Wiki’s can be complex in structuring and so you are probably going to get a lot of coding going on there, but there are some “light” versions around that don’t seem to fall prey to this issue. I have tried countless versions of Wiki software to find something that I like, I admit I am being a little picky but I need to know that it can do what I have in mind without hacking into 50 different php files to do so. Ideally what I would like to see is someone like Automattic take on the Wiki area. The format that they use for both WordPress and BBPress is something I would like to see in a Wiki. A simple installation and customization of themes, and the use of plugins for extra options. Especially with a rewrite for the urls, which has been the draw back of the light Wiki software I have used, I want more control over the urls.

A guy can dream.

Recently chucker mentioned in his “Remix” post about the tagline in wordpress, which states “Code is Poetry” and ventures the possibility of Code being Art.
This leads me to wonder if Code is Poetry what does that make the Kubrick style sheet? A Haiku perhaps?
I was wondering if I was the only one frustraited by the messy CSS code of Wordpress’ default theme, but as it turns out I wasn’t.

So I decided to do something about it, I went through and removed all the conflicting values (duplicate values) and added a few more to make customisation easier (some people know how to change values but not write new ones). I wrote this sheet in a structured way that I find works for me, not sure if others will find it usable as I can never tell if my CSS decent enough for people really. So here it is;

• Kubrick Style Clean (.txt format)

As chucker points out, Kubrick is third party and so doesn’t really fall under wordpress’ “Code is Poetry” line, this of course would depend on whether the line itself refers to just wordpress code or code in general.