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As you may have noticed, Flow of Logic is now wearing a new theme, which I call Winter Scenic.

This has been a rather stressful few hours, as I had forgotten that it’s Christmas Eve and I hadn’t finished my Winter Themed Design Project!...

It always saddens me when someone finds a bug and doesn’t report it. Lucky for me, Habari keeps error logs, and I was able to find this one.

There was a problem with the archives, for example, a link like this: http://flowoflogic.com/2008/page/2, which was actually the problem link....

So it’s been a week since I installed Habari (my installation tells me 8 days? okay) and here are my thoughts so far.

Pros

It’s light

Habari’s base install comes out to be about 2.5mb compared to 4.5mb for WordPress and 15mb for Movable Type.

It’s database independent

As mentioned a a previous post, I can’t really afford MySQL, so Habari is perfect because it supports SQLite.

It has a simple but aesthetically pleasing backend

Controls are done through a JavaScript dropdown menu that can be accessed using keyboard shortcuts.

The code is readable

One of the things I love doing when I get something is to tear it to shreds and see what’s inside. I love how easy to read Habari’s code is, meaning I can hack it that much faster or easily. I even learn new PHP techniques from reading the code. When I look at WordPress’ (monstrous) code I actually have to, well, decode it before I can understand it.

When I made this site design, one of my decisions was to use semi-transparent PNGs, fully knowing that IE6 does not support it natively. Well, IE6 users rejoice, because jQuery has a plugin called PNG Fix that fixes these semi-transparent PNGs in IE6.

I have finished the design for the new theme, which I call “Oregon”, named for the location of the background image.

I am very happy with this design (the background is gorgeous), even though it doesn’t really work in IE6 which does not support transparent PNGs, but, amazingly, it degrades pretty well. EDIT: I have since fixed this problem...