Someone finally responded to my inquiries about customizing the display of my homepage. Yesterday, I posted an addendum to my original post, stating that I was still looking for help. An unassuming and friendly response came from another member of the support forum, named “Stephan.”
He suggested that I can achieve the desired effect by incorporating the If Empty MT Plugin, and then went on to provide an example of the code I’ll need to incorporate into my homepage. I’m not familiar with MT plugins, so I’ll have to do some more research before I start dropping tags into my code. I hope this plugin holds my solution. I’m also hoping that the process of using plugins isn’t too involved, and that the code required to evoke these features isn’t extensive.
My chief complaint about my site is the fact that my current host doesn’t support all of the PERL modules I need for the CGI scripts I want to use. Due to these restrictions, I’ve decided to change ISPs at earliest convenience–which means I’ll have to go through the painstaking and precarious process of updating and redirecting the majority of my site’s files. Moving is already going to be a bear of a chore, so really I don’t want to be making matters more complicated with this plugin.
