I just went back through and re-imported the entire old blog for what I hope is the last time. Before I did that, I had to delete all the episodes I’d imported before (I’ve made a few spelling corrections in the text, and the links did not reflect the impending redefinition of muddledramblings.com)
As I was deleting all the old stuff, I kept telling myself, “Don’t delete the episode with all the useful user feedback. Don’t delete the episode with all the useful user feedback.” Then Sparta scored a goal, flipping the puck through the five-hole, and Franta was saying, “Džerý! Džerý! Croquet!” and in the ensuing excitement I deleted the episode. Poop. Sorry about that.
There’s still a lot of work to do over here, mainly on the sidebar. Knowing that people are coming here regularly will help light a fire under my butt to make it right.
For the most part, for you guys things will continue pretty much as they always have. Posts transported over will still have links to comments left on the old blog, but if you add comments there you should remember that they will not show up on the recent comments list. (If you keep the old RSS feed, you can still keep up, but in the future you’ll want to be tracking the new comment feed.)
The new comments have a small anti-spam wrinkle that I’m still up in the air about. To leave a comment you must supply an email address. That address never appears anywhere, and does not have to be real. The only thing is, the first time you use the address, your comment will be held back until I approve it. If you supply the email address associated with your gravatar (and possibly other systems, I wasn’t paying attention during that part of the lecture), then it will magically appear.
I’m not sure about this, but I think you can also sign up as a member, which, as far as I can tell, gains you exactly nothing (except my stat counter will ignore you). If there does turn out to be a benefit, I’ll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, don’t worry about the email thing. It never shows up (even if you want it to) and helps me fight robots.
Damn those evil robots!
It’s going to take a few days to get muddledramblings.com to point to this place. In the meantime the old links and images will be broken. I’ll be really bummed if they’re still broken when the DNS is updated.
So, welcome, I guess. Any feedback you have is sincerely appreciated.
Before you bother telling me, I know that the “muddled ramblings” font above is totally wrong. I was getting some weird stuff going on and I use a setting that fixed it – except it depended on the font already being on the user’s computer. Later I discovered that the weird stuff was probably only happening when I was using the debugger, so I’ll be setting it back. Alas, that is a very time-consuming process, as each letter has six keyframes that must be changed.
If you see a nice scripty font above, I’ve already fixed it.
But how ’bout that haiku updater? Is that not cool?
I am still using internet explorer, but the font size in this comments section is so small that it is difficult to read. It may be my computer, but other documents and web pages have normal size fonts.
Next on my list is to make the pop-up comments suck less. The window has been more of less ignored by WordPress developers for a while (as far as I can tell) so some if it’s parts don’t match up with what’s going on behind the scenes.
I’ve make things a little better, until the time comes I can make wholesale changes to this template.
About the font size … I notice that the first paragraph of a comment is a nice size, but the subsequent paragraphs are in a smaller font. I don’t have trouble reading it on my computer, but it can be a problem on others.
Thanks for pointing that out. I wanted to make the comment text larger without also growing the byline, which is plenty large enough already. I did it right this time.
Thank goodness for FireBug!
Today I’ll be focussing on the typesetting of the episodes themselves, particularly the customized ones.