Sunday January 1, 2006 at 6:00 pm | Filed under On the Web, Site
Yeah, it’s 2006 and all that, but on Dec 26th, WordPress 2.0 came out, and it’s pretty snazzy. I have built what seems like a half-dozen new sites in the past few months (did I mention judyludy.com went live?) and for the last few I was able to create them with this new version of WordPress. For all the grimy details, check out this article. There’s a whole slew of new stuff included in the new version. Dare I say something for everyone? I would have liked to seen a better thumbnailer/photo posting mechanism build into the new WYSIWYG editor, but it’s got the beginnings of what I’m after for some of the HTML-challenged people that I create sites for. Maybe a plug-in will get it the rest of the way.
My own experience was that you really need to back everything up before you do anything if you have any data in your site that you’d like to ever see again. Upgrading this site was the hardest, as it has the most data, the most modifications to the wordpress code, and the most plug-in dependency (still don’t have the theme-switcher working again yet). I actually upgraded two blogs, everything went swimmingly so I figured I’d try mine. …not so swimmingly. But things are back up now and ready for a whole new year of bloggin’ action!
Wednesday September 7, 2005 at 12:20 am | Filed under On the Web, Site
No, not because you have bad breath… although you really ought to take care of that. MINT is a newly released site statistics package that has a great design to it. With such a great UI, and open-ended API, and other acronyms in MINT’s favor, you should look into adding it to your site if you care about visitor tracking, search engine optimization, or referrer tracking, and anything else having to do with visitor stats. At $30 per site implementation, it’s a steal and right for those smaller budget sites. haveamint.com
Monday June 27, 2005 at 7:59 pm | Filed under On the Web, Site
I’ve been using My Yahoo! for quite some time. Wait, that doesn’t sound right. Aww forget it you’re on you’re own.
Anyway, it’s got this cool feature now where you can add RSS feeds to your My Yahoo! pages. I’ve created a new page on mine called “Feeds” and I have all of the blogs in my Blogroll in there. I’ve added a graphic so that you can add my feed to your My Yahoo! (Our Yahoo!?) If you want to have a button like this on your site, go here to generate the code you need. It’s very simple, in fact, here’s mine again…
And here’s some links to some friends with feeds enabled. Click on them to add their feeds to your My Yahoo! page(s):
Arlen
Ben
Flippin’ Jason
Monique
Rich
Scott
Shana
For some reason some of the sites I tried didn’t work, I don’t know if it’s something the owner has to tweak, or I’m guessing wrong at the feed location, but if you have questions, let me know.
RSS feeds are the finally the new hot thing. Apple’s dashboard widgets are a nice example. There are now over 650 widgets available for Dashboard! Heck I got one yesterday that tells me what gas stations in my neighborhood have the cheapest prices! (currently Arco) We’re working on a few projects at work that will use RSS feeds too! I’m excited about those.
If you ‘d like to read up more on this RSS feed thing and how Yahoo! is using it, check this out. Of course, My Yahoo! is just one way to use feeds. There are tons of sites that use them too (not just blogs). Get your sports fix on, grab some CNN, whatever! You can get a newsreader app and check your personalized headlines out when you want, or even subscribe to RSS feeds within certain browsers like Safari and Firefox.
