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Bored at Work

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, WordPress

I’m sit­ting here wait­ing for the pro­gram I’m test­ing to fin­ish pro­cess­ing some data that I threw at it. I take a moment to stop over at the Ter­rapin’s web­site to try find­ing out more info on some of their comopoli­tan drinks. You see they’ve changed their menu in the store sev­eral times and while they still make all the old drinks; you have to know what they are as they aren’t listed any­where in the store¹. So I’m brows­ing the site and I find myself think­ing; gee, I read blogs reg­u­larly that are bet­ter look­ing than this site. I won­der how the site is built. You can image my hor­ror when I looked at the source and dis­cov­ered that it was made in Micro$haft Front­puke. *shud­der*

Okay, I’ll admit that more cur­rent ver­sions of Front­puke write code that isn’t as bad as what older copies of it spit out, but the Terrapin’s site appears to have been writ­ten in an older ver­sion. So not only are tables being used when they’re not really needed; the code is full of crap that doesn’t need to be in there. And if that’s not bad enough; the web­site hasn’t been updated in some time as it’s my under­stand­ing from the mother of the own­ers that their 2nd loca­tion has closed but the web­site still shows it as being open for busi­ness. Now given how easy WP is to work with; I’m think­ing that I might try build­ing a cus­tom site for the Ter­rapin using it². Come to think of it; I might want to try redo­ing that tem­plate for AWelkin using WP as well. Hmm… It’s a thought anyway.

¹ Yes, I agree that’s a bad idea but what can one do about it?
² Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know I still need to build a cus­tom theme for my own site; but like the title of this post says, I’m bored at work and that’s where I get some of my better/dumber ideas for things like this.

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