Hid the edit button for now, but it should be making an appearance again shortly. Got the Dates menu generating correctly, just have to wire up the links to actually do something when clicked on. I'll also need to go back and fix how the menu works on a phone, which I think I can do with media queries. The plan is to switch it to a collapsible menu when viewing on a phone. Started to work on adding in the topics to the post and adding the topics into the menu system too. So that should be the next thing I get done. I'll have to remember to add the topics column into the database too, before pushing the code live.
So looks like there are some differences in the new Bootstrap, so had to learn a couple of new things. Also, had a couple of hiccups in the documentation. It was my fault because I kept doing searches through google and was getting linked to different versions of the documentation. That's all worked out now and now I know what to look for. Looks like they also deprecated a couple of classes that I was using and added in some new things, that actually make columns easier to implement. Well got all the basics worked out, which also fixed some display errors in IE.
I'm just going back to what I know and like to do. Instead of trying to learn some indepth CMS, I'm just going to do what I like doing and code the pages from scratch. It does mean that at some point I'll have to check CSS compatibility with IE, which is something I hate doing, but guess thems the breaks.
It's been about four weeks that I've been doing the Saskatoon Paleo diet. It was fun, but I have to save up some money now so I'm going to be putting that on pause and just using the crockpot for a bit. I've probably lost about 10 pounds total, that's without any exercise, but it has been rough overall. I have yet to feel this magical burst of energy that people always talk about, if anything I've been more tired since starting it. The problem is that it's hard to know if energy issues were from the change in diet or because I've been under other stressful pressures right now. The number one thing that's been on my mind this month is getting moved out of my apartment. As for Saskatoon's plan, I enjoyed the food that was provided and it was great not having to prepare, cook, or clean up after meals. It was also great to get something that I new was healthy and not loaded with sodium or sugar, but I kind of wish there was a place that did this same kind of deal but for just regular old omnivors. I don't think the problem is so much completely cutting things like carbs out of your diet is the way to go, I mean people need to definitly cut back on carbs, sugar, and red meat, but at the end of the day our current society is pretty demanding. I think our bodies need some level of those "bad" things to get through the day. I know coffee is great for a burst, but at the same time I would rather rely on some carbs to get me a little extra energy during the day instead of more and more caffeine.
I think what I need to is either move the Blog to the main page, or make the homepage show the newest three blogs, like how I had my original site laid out. I'm still not 100% on if I want to keep using/learning Concrete5 or just redo my site from scratch. If I redo my site, I think I'll focus on using Bootstrap and AngularJS...on the downside that means I'll have to take time to learn AngularJS. Although that would probalby be a good thing to learn, that would take away from my main goal of trying to put more time into learning Unity3D. As for the voting system, I want some feedback on my posts, but I always don't want negative. My ego feels a little fragile at the moment, so I don't want to go all in with a comment system. That was actually what I left out of the Blog when I was following the instructions to build it, mostly I'm not looking for a discussion, just a place to get my thoughts out. So I found a simple thumbs-up/thumbs-down voting, but I'll have to mess with it some because I just want the thumbs-up part of it. :D
I finally got the navigation menu to go horizontally! After hours of looking into it trying to find some button that would do it I just added in custom CSS to make it happen...and apparently that is the way to do it. See this is what I don't get about CMS's in general! They boast about front-end website building, but when it comes down to it you either have to register and download a ton of addons to get things working or just edit the backend code to actually get what you want. They make it seem like it's just like editing a Word document, but it's not...it never is. So when it comes down to it, you either need a degree in the CMS to know what it can and can't do natively or you just start hacking the CSS and JavaScript to force it to do what you want. At the end of the day you have a site that loads slower than clean code and really takes just about as long to develop because of all the researching and fumbling around you do to figure out what is the right and wrong approach to something simple you are trying to do. Hopefully it gets easier the more I play around with it, but I'm already kind of looking around for something more straight forward. I guess I'm going to have to signup on the site so I can try and use the addons, see if those make it easier.
I've been trying this Saskatoon Paleo Meal Plan, but don't be confused I'm not doing it because I'm going to be a paleo person or anything like that. I'm really just doing it because I'm tired of grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning. These things consume a good bit of time and it's hard to find recipes for one serving...and the math to make a recipe one serving gets annoying when you have to deal with fractions of a teaspoon. Basically their meal plan is I give them money and they give me meals, shakes, deserts, and supplements all portioned and packaged out. Which means I just have to heat and eat. Clean-up is as easy as getting takeout. I'm about at the end of the first week, this time I only paid for one week which was about 160$. At first glance that may sound high but with everything you get and not having to spend time cooking, cleaning, or shopping I feel it's worth it. At the moment I've paused my workouts, while my body is adjusting to the lower calorie and carb intake. The first maybe...three days I had a very slight headache, nothing bad enough that I had to take anything for. It was more like that feeling right before you get a headache, where things are a little more annoying but nothing that makes you want to crawl into bed or bite someone's head off. For those of you that are interested in the weightloss aspects of this, it looks like I've lost about 5 lbs. this week. This is without exercise, but don't be fooled the past four days I have been hungry inbetween meals. That hungry seems to be a bit less each day. I also realized that if hunger was a bigger issue for an individual it would be easy to head to the store and just get more of what they give you for snacks. Which this week was carrots, celery, and assorted nuts. I've just been powering through those urges though, and everything seems to be fine.
Well that was a royal pain in the butt! I'm testing out this CMS, which are supposed to make creating a site faster and easier, but I still don't see it. I was following a guide on how to build a Blog in this CMS. The guide was maybe a 3 out of 5, but it took me like three hours to get through it! Just so many settings to setup! When I built my site from scratch it just seemed like it was much easier. I just made a form with three fields, made a database to match, and bam! That was it, everything worked fine. Don't get me wrong I picked up a couple things from going through the tutorial, but overall there is no way I could just sit down and setup it up again without going back through the tutorial. I mean really the only thing that is has is the ability to format my entries, but honestly I could have built that into my custom one. Well I guess the reality is that I'm trying to use a CMS for overall speed when building, so hopefully when I get the basics built I won't have to spend time coding this and I can focus on learning other things.