Hey guys, I’m going to be redoing I R Blogging over the next week or so to make it better. Some of the changes that are going to happen involve: A) A new layout: The one we have is falling apart and being held together with plugins and duct tape. B) Complete removal of plugins and addons: We’re going to start fresh. I’m going to take out anything that might be causing the site to run slow, or be unorganized. This includes revamping the search tool to allow me to see exactly what you guys want and target posts better to what you want to read C) Retagging: I’m going to try to make my way through every post on the blog and retag it. This will enable you to find related posts quicker and faster. D) New logo: It’s been almost a year and we still don’t have one. I’ll try to fix this, if you have any ideas feel free to shoot me an email.
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For those loyal readers, you’ll know I changed my hosting provider from Fuitadnet to GoDaddy a few months back because Fuitadnet, in short, is pathetic. They just weren’t very organized. The only catch here is, I should still have hosting open at Fuitadnet.
“WTF?!” I’m sure you’re all saying. Well in May, they had already taken the payment for the hosting portion of my site for the 6 six months, so when I took my domain it should have just left he hosting floating in limbo until I call them and cancel that, which I didn’t. I called them today to see if anybody could find out how to access my hosting account, as I’m going to get the last final backup of it (hopefully) then cancel it. They can’t find it.
I gave them the domain name, I gave them my account number, my payment confirmation, my last name, my address: Nada. This leads me back to the idea of “they just weren’t very organized”. They told me to forward the payment invoice to them and they’d give me a call in 24-48 hours. I’m going to call when I get home tomorrow morning after work. I also have trouble ticket numbers which I’m hoping they could look up. All I want is the files I paid for (since they should still have them in their database for 3 months) is that so much to ask that I get what you charged me for?
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Site RelatedComments Off
Through pressure from GoDaddy (and just plain good timing) I decided today to open SnorBuFar, another site created by yours truely.
As said in the previous post referring to this, SnorBuFar is randomness at it’s finest and that is what the site is. Instead of be spewing out random thoughts that are in my head and whatever links I happen to think are cool that I’m surfing at the time here (and making this look far too much like a journal) I’ll put them over there. This site will remain for the logical stuff that I actually think two seconds about before posting.
Snorbufar will be similar to some other ‘micro blogging’ sites, but the difference is I’m going to open this to the public. Whoever wants to sign up can do so, and post what they wish (with a few exceptions listed in the FAQs). There is no organization, I don’t care what you post, just whatever needs to leave your head and go on the internet it’s there. Hopefully, this will become a huge mess of links, thoughts and other. The bigger the mess, the better.
So feel free to check it out and give it a go, I’ll be harassing people to try it for awhile.
Firef.ly is a new service currently in beta created by Betaworks that turns any of your sites into a chat room. Before you say that you’ve seen this before listen here: There is no downloads. That’s right, two lines of code thrown into the footer of my coding (totally painless) and my site has now become it’s own chat room.
If you have a look at the bottom right of your screen, you should see a floating box with # Here, # Chatting, Start Chatting. Click start and the screen gets sort of an ‘overlay’ thing going. You can still scroll and look at whatever is on the site, but you can also move your mouse around and start typing. Where ever you type, it will create a little chat bubble that anybody else on the site can see.
Some of the extra features that look to be put in are the choice of pre-loaded cursors (because arrows are boring) and what looks to be the option to use an image of your own choosing (that doesn’t seem to work yet or I can’t figure out). There is also a twitter option to have certain parts of the convo go to twitter (again can’t get it to work). What IS working though is the time line feature. this allows you to scroll along the site’s time line and check out conversations from the past, which are conveniently marked with little white lines, turning the chat room into a nice form of bulletin board as well.
I really hope this service lasts, it seems to hold a lot of promise. What they really need now is to get a forum/blog going so we have some way to help them perfect this. They do have a blog, and it’s even listed at the bottom of the main page, I’m a tard. Thanks Andy. Anyway, check it out because it’s awesome. Remember to leave a message there when you check it out, I’ll be sure to see it.
*feel free to ignore this*
I’ve had irblogging for a few months now, figure it’s about time I go around the net and update some of the trackers. First on the list: Technorati. Technorati Profile
Took me two days (be it only 10 minutes a day) but I have my phone set up to let me blog. Ill post what plugin it was later. It was either wphone or mobileword (think that was it). I put them both in the way out the door and am using them on the bus now to post this. Its very primitive, but thats all I want so it rocks. Now I can blog from work…on my lunch of course *wink wink*
That said, time to transfer buses so this post comes to an end. Frosted Flakes.
So I’ve finally gotten around to changing stuff up a little bit here. The main things:
Only a core: Since Blogging for Apples seems to have *cough* escaped my grasp, I’ve dropped the name. Same great content, but will just be IRBlogging from now on.
New Layout: A little cleaner than the last one. Still needs some fine tuning though.
Cleaner x2: All of the Archives/Categories/Pages have become drop down menus. Will save you time while browsing.
Twitter: I’ve added twitter to the top. Not sure if I like it there or will move ti as a side note. What do you think?
Empire: It kind of…died. For some reason or another the pictures didn’t move over with the rest of my archives. I have them saved on a CD somewhere as of like last year (think 1 or 2 might be missing from that backup) but not sure where it is. I’ll put them up with the relaunch.
Relaunch?!: Yes, When I finalize my idea for shirtninja I’ll put something up and have a relaunch. Along with whatever the new thing may be, I’ll put the empire back up.
So keep an eye out true believers, I’ll get the two completely on their own eventually and all will be super swell.
We’ve moved, aren’t your thrilled?! ShirtNinja.net has been struck by a bolt of awesome and split down the middle.
On one side, we’re going to have iRblogging.com: A blog above all else about whatever we want to talk about when the fingers start hitting the keys.
On the other side, we’re going to have ShirtNinja.net: It hasn’t been decided what will be put here in it’s entirety, but I can assure you that it won’t go to waste.
Those said, we can’t just have a simple move! So keep an eye out and the two sides will BOTH most likely get new layouts. Again, welcome to iRblogging.
