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Dec
06

General Site Update

by: Christopher

Things are going very smoothly now since working with PowWeb on the PHP issues. Yesterday, the photo gallery was working very well and the blog had most, if not all, of the random pictures loading correctly in the sidebar. Aside from me almost screwing up the config file again, and then finding my problem and fixing it again (not knowing what the heck I had just done!), I was able to fix the links for every page to be tied together. Navigation is much less complex now.

As stated previously in my last entry, the accidental zapping of the blog’s main database and subsequent backup re-install affected 2 recent entries. One entry was sent back into draft status, with a few more lines to write, and the other entry was banished to cyber-oblivion with no hope for recovery. That’s such a pity… that entry detailed the recent changes I had made to the look and functionality of the blog itself. It also detailed my inspiration for the changes and what I had done to accomplish them. I cited a fellow blogger, with her blog being the source of said inspiration, and she gave a very nice comment. I feel bad about that because this is the second time a goof-up on my part nixed one of her comments; the first was on my guestbook. Britgirl, if you’re reading this, my heartfelt apologies to you.

Speaking of the guestbook, I finally got around to fixing and implementing the newer security features on it. Today was the first day that I haven’t had to clear any spam comments out of it! Sometime later, I want to monkey around with the CSS on it to see if I can make it look more like the blog itself. Hopefully then I can do the same with the homepage. I like the green on black motif of the blog, rather than the neon blue on black of the homepage.

Next to-do: Update the links in the sidebar. The SuperSociety link will be the first one jettisoned!

Cheers!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 at 9:00 pm and is filed under Graphics/Web Work, Personal Thoughts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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  1. Britgirl Says:
    2. December 6th, 2006 at 9:25 pm

    Hey.. was it something I said?? Only joking. I might see if my comment is on CoComment though… if it was voila, you can have both post and comment back. Btw – I love Red Rain – was watching Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World” live album just the other week. I know “Red Rain” is from “So” though.

  2. Britgirl Says:
    3. December 6th, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    “Et voila…” she says as she produces the original comment with a flourish :) Btw I’ve now created the Bloggers page.

    Wow – Christopher, thank YOU for the mention! Glad to be able to be of inspiration… :-)
    Totally agree with your comments on the sidebar – as you may have spotted on my “To do” list, it’s one of the things I am going to tidy up. For one thing my plan is to create a main links page, because, although I like my readers to see them all at a glance I now have so many, it involves a lot of scrolling, plus I then don’t add anything to the sidebar. I think I’m going to do something like Carol has done on her blog http://www.carolsvault.com

    Great post – I will be looking at some of your ideas as well and as I think I said before – great blog!