OK, admittedly I’m only 2 days in to re-assessing Wordpress (plus a painful week of porting - thank the bigbang that I never posted more in the past), but I am seriously struggling to stay open minded. Wordpress is undoubtedly the industry leader in blogging packages, and I am determined to work out why, but [...]
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Goodbye custom blog… hello Wordpress
In order to get this site up and running again I decided to scrap the custom blog/CMS system and just go with an off-the-shelf package. It would have been nice to have stuck it out with the bespoke system, but it was clear that I had time to either work on the system OR write [...]
The last 51 weeks
Doesn’t time fly eh? It’s been a week short of a full year since I last put a post up on this site. The combination of having a very busy year, needing to get my priorities straight, and buggering up the website some-what interrupted the flow of posts for a while, but now I am [...]
Reskinned the site
Decided to re-skin this site today as I was getting bored by the grey style that I previously had. Turned out to be quite a good test of the CMS system that I have put behind it as well, as the reskinning took just over 45minutes from start to finish including doing up the graphics.
I’m [...]
Talkback
I’ve added a couple of extra features to the site today. The most obvious is “talkback” - a way of letting people add their comments to any item or photo posted on the site.
The other is automatic referrer information. At the moment this is just limited to listing the top referrers to the site and [...]
Finally updated
Things have been busy of late, but I finally got around to throwing some more content up on this site today.
I had a lot of photos kicking around that I had promised to share with various people, so I have uploaded these. I’ve backdated everything to whenever the pictures were taken so things might seem [...]
Google-guy Says
OK, I know that this is old hat, but the entry about the Matt Cutts Blog made me think of it again, and I thought it worth noting here.
Google-guy Says is simply a site that notes when a particular user posts on the Webmaster World and Search Engine Watch forums. Not all that interesting unless [...]
Future potential of trackbacks
I’ve recently noticed a growing number of “mainstream” sites utilising trackbacks on their pages. Even CNN’s all powerful news.com now has a slightly messy trackback / pingback system in place.
Not sure of the history of trackback and pingback, but both systems are heavily utilised by bloggers as a way of providing related links to a [...]
Here we go again
It seems that yet another version of this site is now underway - (yeah I know… so many designs, so little content). I seem to have an ever growing collection of digital junk without a permenant home so I thought it about time I put together a system to house it.
When complete, this new version [...]
Google insider blog
I’m not a huge fan of blogging, as the vast majority seem to have little new to say. Good ones though can be great.
I haven’t yet read enough of Matt Cutts’ blog to decide whether it will be one of the rare good ones or not yet, but at first glance it could be interesting. [...]
