As you can see, I’ve been doing a little construction instead of writing. One thing at a time, you know. It’s not that Xanga was bad, it was just… constricting. I’ve got a little more room to grow over here, doncha know.
In the mean time, however, I do have some bugs to fix. Not the least of which is the fact that my comments don’t work at all right now. Movable Type has a new version out with vastly updated comments (it was their main feature), but I built the whole website this far on the old version, and I figured I’d better finish of the job that way. Hey, if a man can learn HTML and Custom Style Sheets in a matter of days, he’s got a little bit of momentum behind him, eh?
Nice New Features with Movable Type:
- Category-Based Archiving! Numero uno benefitas, eh? Check that list on the side… You want essays? I got essays. You want poems? No problem. You want stories. Them too! Each one is archived all by itself and listed neatly on the left. I haven’t decorated the archive sections yet, but each one of them is also going to have a list of articles on the left-like. If you look up top, the old banner is back up, and now it’s a link to the main index. Of course, you’re on the main index now, so I wouldn’t bother clicking it.
- Search Function. It works! I tried it out this morning.
- Static Adjunct Web Pages. En Ingles, that means that I can build some pages on the site that aren’t run by the Movable type program, and have them flow seamlessly as part of the site. I have a couple of ideas for this. An About page, with some basic descriptions, um, about. Maybe a wishlist page…As an interim to comments, I may set up a form instead. One came free with the web space rental.
- Auto-generated emails. This is a really cool function. I haven’t figured out how to set them up yet, but it looks like I can arrange to have whatever I write automatically emailed directly to my adoring fans. All 25 of them. Pretty special, I think.
Also: I had to manually transfer over all the major articles from Xanga. Mostly this was due to the fact that Movable Type 2.66 doesn’t do cut & paste formatting, so I had to make sure everything was formatted right. Partially, this was a good thing because there was some really bad formatting going on with Xanga. Fonts going goofy everywhere. Some articles double spaced, others not. Yick.
But… copying everything over means mistakes, typos, and other bugs. I’m planning on setting up a separate email for bugs. Just not there yet I am.
That’s enough for now. I’m going to bed.
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