Well for the 11 hundredth time I have changed the layout of the site. I really have to stop doing that. For now though things have been moving along quite nicely.
This site runs using Code Igniters, which is great because I can separate all the different components of my site. Like, for instance, the text you are reading right now. I have a class that reaches into my database, takes this text and sifts through my BBCode and converts it into HTML.
Well any class can do that, right? True, but Code Igniters gives me the framework with which to work. What I mean by that is there is a structure, predefined by CI. I have controllers which I use for organizing my content into pages (home, about, projects, admin) and ‘views’ which are my structural markup (templates that have all my HTML just no content to go in it). There are also libraries which are for helper functions like that format class I was talking about, and to make the menu bar so it is dynamic, and my sidebar to be dynamic and those get plugged right into my templates.
In any event I should be able to stop changing things due to the ease at which I can change the structure of my pages. I have pretty much changed completely the layout page without touching the content pages which is a huge accomplishment. From now on all should be good. I will post again soon 
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(oh by the way, don’t even THINK about viewing this page in Internet Explorer. I am going to see if I can fix it but until I do use Firefox or Safari, kay?)