Blog and Website update

(Tuesday, August 7. 2007)

As you may already noticed I published two new advisories (Winamp 5.35 (Infinite) M3U File Inclusion Stack Overflow Exception respectively DoS Vulnerability in Konqueror 3.5.7) and replaced Wordpress with a good[TM] weblog software named Serendipity.

Actually, I wanted to replace Wordpress since the beginning of this year (I'll explain the reasons for this decision in another blog posting) but I did not have enough time (and at least mind to) convert my customized Wordpress theme into a Serendipity theme until now.

I used this opportunity to improve the theme's XHTML and CSS code. Now the code is smaller, has a better browser compatibilty and the right column of the two column layout has a fixed width. This means that the column does not get resized if the user changes the browser's width which ensures that the content of the right column is still readable/usable even when the browser's window size is very small. Certainly the left column is completely liquid and shrinks if the browser's width decreases.

Unfortunately, I did not make all customizations I wanted to do until yet. So the Serendipity template still has some bugs and there are still several task to do.

TODO:

Replace Serendipity's standard comment form with CSS forms
Replace static website (advisories, papers, etc) with Serendipity's static page plugin
Fix several bugs
Optimize my Serendipity template
Make the template usable to others

Posted by morpheus in News at 15:34

Defined tags for this entry: advisories, blog, css, news, serendipity, wordpress, xhtml

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Replacing the form with css only is easy, but some of us have discovered it's actually more reliable to abuse HTML's definition lists, as has been done in several of my latest templates and the new bulletproof template.

BTW, love the design for this site, any thoughts of releasing it?

#1 Carl (Homepage) on 2007-10-21 20:37 (Reply)

Hi Carl,

I'm surprised that you came across my blog bu

I did not want to replace the crappy tables with CSS only but rather planed to introduce semantically meaningfull elements like fieldsets, legends and labels and to change the boring style of the current form. I must say that I did not have a look at the new Bulletproof template (framework) yet but I would prefer lists (if at all) for realizing CSS forms more. alistapart.com has serveral nice articles about CSS forms (e.g. Prettier accessible Forms by Nick Rigby) and for example the wufoo.com guys did a pretty good job with building (JavaScript compatible) forms with lists.

I really like your Serenedipity templates too.

As I said in this blog posting I want to make this template available for others but I did not make all changes I want to do before releasing it to the public until yet. However if you would like to see this template online I'm doing my best to aplly all changes and to release it in the near future.

Best regards,
Thomas

#2 Thomas Waldegger (Homepage) on 2007-10-23 17:10 (Reply)

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