So WordPress’ Matt extends a hand of friendship to allow other blogging systems to use his wonderful Akismet.
Awesome. I love Akismet.
So why am I not allowed to use Akismet on my WordPress MU installation here on the site even though I’m not an enterprise and I’m only running it for a couple of friends? I’d have to buy a $150 a month enterprise key.
Riiight, like I can afford that.
I’m currently switching back and forth between a lot of previous wordpress themes and new ones, trying to figure out what I want. My wishlist for content and bits of pieces I want to display on the front page is quite large, and I still haven’t found one that satisfies me 100%.
I want Hemingway blocks, widgets, latest posts from the forum, latest pics from the gallery, latest entries from the other blogs, the latest entry (a la popurls.com) from a couple of sites I always read, some site stats, albumcovers of stuff I’m listening to at any given moment (using data from last.fm), books I’m reading and other bits and pieces.
And of course, it has to look good. Easy on the eyes, minimalistic yet glossy, and the hardest part given the amount of stuff I want to shove onto the page; it shouldn’t look crowded. Which is extra tricky because a lot of you are still using low resolutions, 1024×768 or less. So to some degree the design has to be fluid or scale properly, seeing as I also want to make good use of screen estate for those of us with higher resolutions. Personally my screens use 1680×1050 and I’m sick and tired of all the layouts that are still fixed to 800×600. That’s half the screen empty.
Oh oh, AND I want to fiddle with loops to break up the monotony. Most themes still have columns going straight down, so there’s one column going down with all the blog entries, one or two columns with nothing but widgets… boring. So I’ll have to fiddle with the loop code to break it up a little, so for example you’ll get one blog entry, then a widget/block, then another entry. I think that’ll look nice.
merry Christmas, or whatever floats your boat.
Enjoy the R&R for those of us who have a few days off and for those who have to work; I salute you.
For me it means spending a bit of time with my huge family (my mom) and the rest is spent catching up with some site stuff I wanted to get done. Mmm, relaxing.
USB Christmas lights… thanks Raven, the most Christmas crazy lady I’ve ever met.
That title popped up in my newsfeed… again… it annoyed me.
I know it’s fashionable at the moment to come up with lists of plugins you need to get good seo, lists of popular topics for blogs, lists of things you ‘must’ do to get people to leave comments, but god it’s boring me to death.
After everything else has been monetized they’re now trying to kill the last bastille of freedom of speech by saying what we should or shouldn’t blog about.
Well… blow me. The only thing I’d recommend you don’t blog about is a list of things you should avoid blogging about. It’s pointless.
I absolutely love reading random blogs, and the way they give you a good idea of who the person behind the writing is. The best way to blog in my opinion is to just do it. Write about whatever pops into your mind, whatever happened to you, or whatever your interests are. It’s your blog, do your thing.
Forget about Microsoft’s Vista & Apple’s OsX, there’s no eyecandy like Enlightenment eyecandy. The real source of desktop innovation since 1996.
No, not me. The site. Over the years there’s been so much added ad hoc that I think now that the community side of things has gone rather stale the rest of the site’s left hanging in mid-air. We have an anime/manga section that hasn’t seen much in the way of updates, Final Fantasy Music Online… r.i.p, gallery is hybernating, the blogs are only used by a handful of people and everyone else seems to have left the building.
It’s nice to see at least some of you check it out every now and again, but what for?
I’d LOVE to know, because it’ll give me at least some sense of direction where I can focus my efforts to try and bring ye olde dog back to its former glory.
Why isn’t there an application which lets me point to an image file, drag some boxes around to assign which part of the image is the menu, the content area, the sidebar etc… and hit a magic button which turns it into a wordpress theme?
The world needs it!
Well, I do.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind