Thought I’d just write a small article about the software and hacks I use to make this site run. More of a reference for me than anything else, but you may find it useful or interesting.

Wordpress

First and foremost, the blogging software I use is Wordpress, and brilliant, free, php-based package that works just as you’d expect. I’ve done some major template hacking, namely messing around with the index.php rearranging thing, moving menus to separate files and tweaking the xHTML so it fits my exacting standards.

Design and CSS

I’m a sucker for CSS. I’ve been building pages with it for about 3 years now, and I’m still finding new and interesting ways to have content displayed through it.

Yorrike.com uses mainly CSS1 and CSS2, but I do have a few CSS3 selectors lurking around. This is all well and good if you use a real browser, but when it comes to Internet Explorer, CSS3, and many of CSS2’s selectors are frustrating missing. To overcome this, and avoid straying from the standards, I use the IE7 Hack by Dean Edwards. This comprises of a set of JS libraries that force IE to comply with my CSS.