04 Apr 2005
Okay, so maybe throwing a new theme up like that straight away wasn’t the greatest of ideas… but you’ve gotta admit it looks cool. I’ve just patched up the contact page (n.b. the address has changed, coz it’s now managed through WordPress Pages… I’ll figure out a way around this, and both the old form and the new themed one work, but for the time being the address is <a href="/blog/contact/">/blog/contact/</a> rather than the old <a href="/contact/">/contact/</a>), as well as a few posts that were being dodgy… especially with graphics, which’d been designed for a fixed-width site of 600px, as opposed to… whatever this is. I haven’t got time to go slashing at CSS just yet, but it’ll happen, unavoidably! (I’ve heard and completely agree with readability comments… that’ll be one of the first things to be fixed, because it’s a real problem…)
In other exciting news, I just cracked 1GB of transfers this year.. which doesn’t sound like a lot, but I did around 470MB last month, and this month (albeit 4 days in) is looking to be similar in terms of transfers and hits if the trend continues. Last month there were 44,444 hits (isn’t that a cool number?) exactly, probably in no small way as a result of the moderately successful DashLite, which has got a ridiculous number of trackbacks or comments in the last 24 hours (well, I thought it was… shrug!), taking the total number of comments on that post to 15, probably the most comments on any single post on this site.
Now I’m gonna wander off cram for a Business exam I’ve got in a few hours, so I can pack it full of buzzwords and be awarded marks accordingly… *sighs at folly of that subject*
04 Apr 2005
Ben pointed out to me that last post was the four hundred and third (Forbidden) post, so I thought I’d actually announce this one as the post which was not found, for no reason other than that it’s the four hundred and fourth post on this website.
The post you were looking for does not exist. Please try using the search facility provided on this website, or, alternatively, go back to reading the weblog normally and just pretend you never read this, because it’s utterly meaningless…
03 Apr 2005
I’ve finally shifted this weblog across to the most excellent WordPress 1.5, which means I can now use my own DashLite, as well as improved themes management (which I’ve unceremoniously trampled upon to keep this current behemoth working quickly), spam combatting features, and slightly-more-than-rudimentary content management capabilities.
I was hoping to release a new theme with this upgrade, but whilst I’m keen on procrastinating, I’d really rather not fail my exams tomorrow and the subsequent day… maybe later this week.
Ten minutes later: Stuff it. I’ve banged in the theme I was planning to base the new one on, coz it’s just so cool I couldn’t leave it a moment longer! Full credit, of course, to Chris Lin. I’ll be making bits and pieces different so it’s not just a stock theme, but I felt like a change and hadn’t had time to whip up something of my own, so this’ll do for the time being (plus it’s sexy!)
03 Apr 2005
Some more attentive regulars (who don’t just peruse this website by means of syndication) may have noticed the disappearance of a link in the top bar in the last several hours. This is because I’ve finally got all the old content into WordPress, with no small amount of assistance from Michael, under a category called “Before WordPress” (this post is categorised similarly, and shall likely be the last ever entry into that category).
Practically, this means that that content is using semantically better markup, has better meta information for search engines, and is internally searchable, using the WordPress search function (it wasn’t before).
For most regulars, this probably doesn’t mean much, but the old articles attract the most search engine traffic, so this’ll be of benefit to people finding relevant content, at least, because the old script could be somewhat retarded in the way it was indexed, as there was no formal permalink structure, just a bunch of loose query strings, which search engines didn’t like.
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