Archive for the ‘Site Updates’ Category
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Thanks to Norman’s suggestion of creating an RSS feed of my old entries, I managed to import ALL my entries from my old blog into WordPress. I’m still wondering whether I should try to keep the old database updated. I also managed to integrate the WP blog into my site with my own header and footer. Fixed up the stylesheet a bit til I was satisfied. My next goal is categorizing and adding a title to all the rest of my posts. We’ll see how far I get with that one.
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
I’ve tried to avoid having to install outside applications into my site in hopes that I could build everything that is located within it’s pages. However, the limits of time have led me to succumb to conveninence. I’ve always wanted to have total control over my journal entries and this is the closest I could get to having that as well as having a lot of functionality I always wanted to add on. If you can’t beat em, join em.
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
I’ve been updating my front page quite a bit. Did you notice? I’ve just been switching up the left hand side notices. *shrug* I wanna try to pull my facebook status into it. I’ll look into that later. I also updated the background, font and border colors for all the pages to give each one an overall theme separate from each other. I was very happy to update the UI/navigation of my journal. Made me feel a lot better to update it so it doesn’t look so clunky anymore. Finally, I made sure my front page was HTML 4.01 and CSS validated again! My other pages probably aren’t but I’ll work on those later =P.
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
As I was practicing my Chinese, Alex introduced me to this wonderful website – zhongwen.com which helped me learn the meaning behind the characters. It’s pretty awesome in terms of getting to know the Chinese writing system. I feel like I’m learning how to read pictographs. They have a nifty feature which I could add to my website which generates new words (my only problem with it is even if I learn what the character means, I don’t know how to say it). I wanted to add this to my site so I created a space for it on the front page. I got into the mood of redecorating my home so I went ahead and created splash page images which rotate similarly to how I did the MTV Movie Awards International websites. I have yet to figure out how else to fill in the newly created space. Hopefully the new layout will make the first page look/feel more professional. Design inspiration comes over time.
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