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New year, New Friends, New Blog!
All that’s left is to get the gallery back up and functioning and this thing will be ready to go. I was thinking of moving the site to a better URL, Hopefully that just means linking the other wordpress installation to the same database. But I really just want to get back to writing, I feel better when I write down the things I think of. But it’s late now and I have to make up sleep that I missed last night.
See you around, Internet!
So I’m moving the blog. For technical reasons this website has much better hosting and WordPress has much more to offer than Blosxom. It’s not like Bloxsom is a bad program, I just think that it’s development has stalled and It’s too hard to configure. This one should be easier to work with and it’s database driven so searching is much easier. I’m still trying to get all the plugins to work and I don’t feel like messing with perl scripts anymore so I’m copying the old entries one by one and changing the dates, which should take a while. But I think it’s worth it.
*UPDATE*
I finally finished!
I need to keep up the blogging. For my own sake, because who would actually read this.
Not much looks like it has changed on this page, but that really isn’t true. I wanted to be able to change the CSS styles dynamically so I used the Bloxsom plugin blosxcss. It allows the user to change to the flavor that they want to. But while I was researching this I discovered CSS Zen Garden this is a site dedicated to using css to its full potential. It is really amazing how different they can make the same exact HTML page look. After that I looked at my HTML code and realized that it was not ready for any css flavor changing. I went into it and added nested div statements so that i could change the look of the page. I then went into my css file and added those divs so I could use them. So anyway hours later… I had it looking the same as when I started… but it is different underneath. So then i needed another css file. I created the “splattered” flavor in about an hour. I really like the title image and I think I will continue to modify it. These two are layed out exactly the same but it dosent have to be. I will be continuing to work with these and adding more. Just click on the one you like in the left menu and the whole site will change to that flavor.
ps…I just tested the plugin, it works in all browsers except Opera… but who cares?
This thing is rollin! most everything is working much better that I thought it would. Unfortunatley the RSS reader is broken. But I wil try to fix it tomorrow. In the last hour I got the moblog software to work. Now I can send pics from my phone directly to my gallery. This is awesome. I’ve told wade to like to my blog, maybe he will actually do it… when i get home i will link to it from my aim account, that should bring in some traffic. till then…
I think i do, but i think i’m just scraping the surface. When I get one thing working on this site i seem to break a couple of other things. The RSS feeds on the right side of the page may or may not be working properly. It would be cool to have them there, but if i have to then I will remove them. I REALLY want to get this MFOP thing to work, its a mobile blogging application that allows you to email pics from your phone right onto the web, it posts them automatically! I would gladly pay the 10 cent email charge to not have to deal with uploading them myself, and it would work from anywhere. But apparently I have chosen the perfect time to get excited about this because his server is down, or moving to a new one. but I will eventually get it working.