I really like Movable Type, even with all the issues I've had with it over the years. I really do. I love the fact that the newer versions have this thing called StyleCatcher that lets you apply styles to the blogs in a matter of seconds (sometimes minutes). What I HATE about StyleCatcher is that the DESIGNERS are sometimes airheaded idiots.
Yes, that's what I said. AIRHEADED IDIOTS. Re-read that to get it through your head (I'm sure I'll get bitched at for this).
So anyway, these Airheaded Idiots are designing Styles and Layouts for four different types of blogs and, let me be honest, there are a few I think are really well done. There are also a lot that are boring. I don't like boring, so the few styles that I like I want to use without the need to go through the fracking CSS file to find out WHY the images aren't working, why the styles aren't applying, etc.
So these really intelligent designers (airheaded idiots) did something really fracking bright. Instead of naming the CSS file what they put in the base-weblog.css file they named it something different. That's right! THEY NAMED IT SOMETHING ELSE!
Ok, I know I am not the brightest freaking person on the block (Getting As and Bs in Web Design!) but I know that if I want to link to a file for my style sheet I better know what the frack I named it.
So this style here that I have applied is called Tropical Dream. Pretty isn't it? In the CSS template for this blog it states the name of the css file being tropical_dream, yet when I look in the FOLDER where the THEME is located, the name of the file is (drumroll please) STYLES.CSS!!!
Obviously you can see how this would create an issue with the link between the StyleSheet and the Blog.
Now I want to make it PERFECTLY CLEAR that this theme is not the only one I have had problems with! I have had problems with many themes that I have tried to use, those include: ShadowDancers, Espresso @ Midnight (currently showing on braindead), Bamboo Dream, Oriental Dream (the sidebars never showed up) and several more since the whole StyleCatcher thing emerged from the getgo.
Here's the note I want to provide to the future generations of individuals and groups that are going to design such StyleCatcher layouts. Watch where you put your files. If you are going to put your image files in an image folder, make sure you indicate that in the image links on the stylesheet (I refuse to go through and replace every single thing, so I simply REMOVE the images folder altogether and upload the images into the THEME folder) and make sure that you name your fracking files what they are supposed to be. If the name of your theme in the base-weblog.css file is going to be My_Theme.css then name the style sheet My_Theme.css. That REALLY isn't difficult.
So let's get rid of the idiotic airheads and get some designer geniuses, ok? Ok. In the words of Wichi, because I think he'd agree that this is a form of laziness - LAZINESS HAPPENS!
