Well, *that’s* even easier ! Now I have the look-n-feel of the long defunct http://www.minimal.cx/ site

Just created the header and footer as two custom macros, then altered the main index page to call those in place of the existing header and footer ones. That way I could still go back if I made a real screw up, but is all appears to be good.

Most of the links will be dead, and only the index page has been changed into my format so the Archive et. al. will appear in the old (but not original) template.

Now I just need to add the older entries with suitably faked up dates to they fit the right format, and to get the date and time to become the header for each item rather than this method, and it’ll be hard to tell from a surfing POV that it’s a blog rather than the old hsc/BeOS static site

Ok, It’s new template time. Just a quick Google and download, and now it all looks like this.

I got the template .zip file from http://www.foshdawg.net/gm/templates/ as the first one in the list (block) ought to look familiar. The layout is really dumb on Netscape 4.72 SPARC/Solaris with CSS turned off, but it’s still navigable.Well, ok. It would be if I went and did something with the links that are on the front page…

Ok, so the layout hasn’t changed, but there may be a few oddities in this blogging that I need to sort out…

It looks like even though the paths have been configured, gm doesn’t like me looking into the Archives section. Maybe I shouldn’t have renamed the paths; maybe I should have configured my templates; maybe I should have read the instructions…

Hmm, this surely can’t be right. Added a new CNAME at my DNS provider, created a new virtual host directory on the web server, HUP’ed the service and copied the Greymatter files into the right places. A quick tour of the Configuration screen later, and it all seems to be working !

Not sure about blogging, but if it takes me away from the point of unreasonable obsession with my new (ok, 2nd/3rd hand) G4 400 Mac then I suppose it’s a good thing. Good now that I’ve found that I need to bully iMovie 2.1.1 into PAL in a new and undocumented way, only to find that DV AVI files are not the same as Quicktime DV files according to iMovie… Sigh… There’s always Quicktime Pro as an alternative, but I’ve also found a few Windows apps that ought to be able to help, as long as the MainConcept DV codec creates the sort of data that Quicktime likes – I guess we’ll see tonight !