Apr
9
It looks like the latest builds of Gallery have search engine friendly URL capability and some new features, but the one now in first Beta looks best yet. Unfortunately the software that comes with automatic install with Fantastico doesn’t do the more current versions and it’s probably easier in the long run to download and install latest versions than to try to upgrade. WordPress, for example, is far easier to install from scratch than to upgrade.
Apr
9
Upgraded to WordPress 1.5
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It’s supposed to be very simple to customize the look with WordPress 1.5 (this is default Kubrick right now), and after printing out how to accomplish “pretty URLs’ to make the modification, come to find out it’s built right in to 1.5 off_the_shelf. There are supposed to be some enhancements and added features very simply implemented, and a TON of ready made styles out there, so time permitting, which is in short supply now, it’ll be fun to delve into it all. There’s already a lot of buzz about the WordPress 1.5 release:
Official announcement of WordPress 1.5 at the WordPress development blog.
A ton of WordPress 1.5 Themes at Alex King’s site.
Aat How to Blog , tutorials and a list or where there are 250 styles/templates available.
And How to Use Themes at WordPress Codex.
I didn’t do the upgrade myself, my daughter did it for me (thanks, sweetie), with just an unexpected mishap or two along the way, with the site being taken down altogether for a few hours yesterday for “maintenance”. Apparently there was some issue with the database somewhere in the backup and migration, resolved with the help of a PHP programming friend who’s also a talented developer and designer (thanks, Scott).
Apr
7
Discussed at Ancarett’s Abode a while back: End of an Era and it sure brought back some sweet memories. I didn’t get clear on the process for requesting migration, so I contacted Member Support and got a reply back from Hobbit herself about changing the email info in my iVillage profile; the one on record was an ivillage email address, long defunct.
Well, old URLs still appear at Google and redirect to an iVillage page, but lo and behold, some of the sites seem to have migrated over with -ivil appended to the former membername - including my very first one, which is what got me started on the whole road I’ve been on since.
Ancarett did a phenomenal job of it, getting that personal homepages community off to a start, and I look back with fond recall to the fun help boards and the weekly chats. Of course there were those interesting membernames, too - like hot4truckers and jellyboons, mamafoofoo and spottydoodle to name just a few.
I somehow found iVillage and joined up my very first day online, and it was my first experience with online communities. There are some great ones around today, but as great as they may be, none has the qualities that made that little homepages group so special. I have a lot things to be thankful for in this life, and that’s one of them.
Apr
6
Oh my! The definition of objectionable profanity has reached a new level with the banning of the word “Marcia” from Threadwatch.org which is the latest SEO gossip rag to hit the scene.
See?
http://www.marciahoo.com/images/banned.jpg
Isn’t it special to be afforded the same honour as the word FUCK in being construed as being objectionable vernacular? How special; I’m honored, indeed.
Tanky for the honour! But perhaps I should post the copy of the thread that I saved on disk that illustrates the whole precipitating incident, the last of a series of unfortunate and unseemly incidents, with the original posts intact - in fact, the last of the Christian-bashing threads posted, to be exact. Wouldn’t that be just as special?