moved!

hi. i have officially moved this blog to my site at http://blog.alanguilan.com/. i will not be updating this one anymore and will be a placeholder to the new site.

sorry for the inconvenience. if you care enough just click on that link above and we'll get you started on the "times in a life of a web site".

see you there!

moving this blog

i think i will be moving this blog soon. i've been playing around with the wordpress templates of my "beta" blog for the past couple of days and its mostly fixed already. i just have to figure out some smaller details like posting pictures and and adding a calendar. wordpress 2 final is coming out on the 26th of december (merry christmas) so maybe i'll wait until then to move or when my hosting service finally upgrades the release candidate (2) currently installed in the server to the final version.

let's see. i'll be offline for the last week of the year. so maybe i'll do that during the first week of 2006.

merry christmast and a happy and prosperous new year to you.

be safe during the new year celebrations.

a day with wordpress

its been a good day of learning. i got wordpress to run on the server very easily. importing this blog into wordpress as almost seamless. the posts and associated comments were properly transferred to my test wordpress blog. although the links weren't included in the import process. most of my time was actually spent on choosing a template and hacking the thing to my preferences.

i just have to learn how to create a second blog. i can't seem to find any reference to it yet. and i'm a little tipsy already. gin tonic. or something like it. its actually 7-up and gin.

tomorrow is another day.

and wordpress too

i just read that my hosting is serving up blogging software wordpress along with movable type. although the wordpress version that comes with my server is still a release candidate they'll upgrade it to the final version as soon as it comes out. cool. now i have three choices. i'll probably start giving those two a whirl once i get clear of the holiday season.

coding is easy, content isn't

i've always found it easy to get the web page coding (html/xhtml and css) done fairly quickly. but making the content for those pages is more of a problem, for me at least.

the home page and its template, the supporting pages and the templates for second pages (the next page within the web site that the user visits) has been done already. all i need to do now is to come up with what to put in those pages. sigh.

c'est la vie.

soon.

template mashing

i'm still messing around with my chosen template in the blog. i changed the sidebar titles, changed the links, added this and that, removed the profile section and replaced the "<<" with an icon at the bottom part of each post.

little things really. i'm sure there'll be more "little" changes in the future and i'll be staring at a completely different-looking blog.

i've been reading up on more blogger hacks and i found several that i may have use for in the future especially when the entries get longer and there are more stuff in the archives.

my first taste of blog spam

i got an e-mail about a comment in one of my blogs — i have a couple aside fromthis one. the e-mail was from my blog asking me to approve or reject a comment. the message just contained links to casinos. ugh. reject.

good thing i enabled comment moderation from the start.

web log on site

after a handful of hours thinking about it and about 30 minutes of tinkering i finally got alanguilan.com to play nice with blogger. it seems logical, at least to me, to put something like a blog on the site. but i wanted it to be easy to set up and maintain and i've had some experience with blogger.

the server actually comes with movable type but i'm not familiar with it yet. so now, i'm poring over the docs (don't they have a downloadable user's manual in pdf for the thing?) and scouring the net about it. i'll eventually have it installed on the server for some hands-on and in-your-face testing.