[Update 11 March 2010: This post is mostly out of date now.]
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks adding features to my blog and I wanted to give everyone involved their props:
- Blogging software: WordPress
- Original site template: plaintxtBlog
- Spam filtering: Aksimet
- Digg and del.icio.us plugins: Solutoire.com
- Google sitemap generator: Arne Brachhold
- Technorati tags: SimpleTags
- Readability stats for WordPress: Flagrant Disregard
- Mailing list management: Feedblitz
- Stats: AWStats
- Photography: some of it is me, most of it is from iStockPhoto
- Other software: Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006, Ipswitch WS_FTP, Fantastico, FrontPage 2003 (I use this to edit longer posts in WYSIWG, Word is rubbish because of all the HTML spam it generates).
I enjoyed hacking around a bit with the code the powers my blog. Takes me back to my programming days and I understand WordPress’s slogan, ‘Code is poetry,’ a bit better.
I’ve still got a few things to do (any tips?):
- Logo or page banner
- Email post to a friend
- Get the email signup button to look like the search buttong
- Support for Blo.gs, Furl, Reddit, Feedster
- Some minor cosmetic stuff
- Write a ‘how to RSS’ for beginners for this and ModernPilot.com
- I’d like a spell checker inside WordPress – apparently this is available already in the hosted version
Is there anything else a blog-about-town should have?
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For banners, seeing as how your current header is set up, maybe you might want to have a random image script going, with cropped and resized versions of some of your best photos. For example, you could crop 5-10 of your best photos to a certain size, upload it to a directory, and put the snippet of PHP code that you need in your header.php file in a DIV named header-img or masthead-img, and style it with CSS to make it centered. Just the way that I think it could be done, but there’s many different ways of doing it. Hope that helps
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