Remembering the Basics
Today at work I was working on making an existing blog into a custom looking blog. One of the things that I had to do with the blog was get it so that the images and sizes were the same and I figured that it would be a very easy thing to do. I dove into the blog’s code and started pulling things around, changing images, playing with the CSS and even tampering with the PHP code. Every time I did something I would test it out to make sure I didn’t make any major mistakes and everything was going well, that is until I got to the Logo at the top of the screen.
This site wanted to use a banner type logo that is fairly standard and when I went to go and replace the existing logo with the new one, it wouldn’t work. I tried just about everything I could and was getting ready to just call it quits when I went to the image through the site (R-click -> View Image) and I realized that the image didn’t exist. The whole time I was trying to get this to work I was pointing it to the wrong directory. All of the other images didn’t have to be tampered with too much, but the top bar logo area had to get totally revamped. What I forgot to do was to upload the image to the blog’s directory instead of to the theme’s directory.
Once I got this all straightened out I realized how simple this bug was and had to go take a break for a bit, I was fairly fried after all. It made me realize though, the most common mistakes that we are likely to make are the ones that are the most obvious. The first thing I ever learned as far ast Webpage Creation is concerned was how to make links, with the second how to make images. These are literally the most basic steps of making a web site, and even I made a mistake that huge after working with them for over 10 years now.
I guess this post is more of a reminder to everyone that no matter how deep into the code you get to try to find out why all of these Zebra seem to be running by just remember, those could be horses too. Check the basic stuff first and if it’s still not right, then you should tear through the code and start going crazy. Wait until then though or you might burn out a bit.
