I spent some more time today tweaking the general layout. There is now, featured stage right, a handsome navigational bar of enviable quality and design. Granted, there’s nothing else to which you can navigate anyway, but rest assured that once there is, it will be with a by-then-familiar interface.

There still remains much more tweaking to be done, and on top of that I’d really like to figure out how to import my older content into WordPress, even if it’s just displayed under a separate, non-bloggy “Old Archive” page. I tried reading a few guides to importing old MovableType content, but they all assume that the user still has working access to their MovableType installation. This, as you may recall, is not the case with my situation, since my web host decided to upgrade some hardware/software/widgets which completely b0rked my MT installation. So I connected to the friendly #wordpress IRC support channel on Freenode, where it was confirmed by some kind folk that without access to my MT installation, I am out of luck. This leaves me with the option of somehow manually importing all of the HTML files MT had generated, which is surely possible, but potentially laborious.

It’s been a long and laborious process but like a phoenix starring in Groundhog Day, llamaSpit is once again reborn. As with most of its rebirths, there isn’t yet much to see or do. After being totally frustrated with my website’s past failings, I decided to divorce myself from MovableType and migrate instead to the fertile grounds of WordPress. This has been an entirely pleasing experience, but there is still a certain amount of work needing to be done to integrate the overall design I have in mind with the functionality of WordPress’ templates. I’m trying to recall the CSS I swear I used to know not so long ago, as well as the rules for clean and functional design I’ve picked up since, but neither comes very easy at 4am. And so, until tomorrow…