FTP works properly for me with Blog now, so I can make a couple of changes to the way this site works for those of you who use crap browsers :P
The ‘mirror’ at http://members.home.net/greg-mitchell/ will continue to operate in the current way, but since I can now publish both a PHP and an HTML version of the page with no incremental effort (ie, I just have to create a template for PHP, but after that, it should all work the same for me as now) This offers a couple of advantages for you, the reader. 1) I will make the possibility of “themes” available - this will let you view the page in whatever ugly way you want. It’s all css right now, so all I’ll have to do is make up some more stylesheets for you to choose from or something. I’m not sure how I’m going to manage persistence (ie, so you have the same style every time you come back) but I’ll come up with something.
I might even come up with an RSS feed template or something. I haven’t really decided what I’m going to do now that I have nearly full control over Blog’s features.
Speaking of features - I downloaded CityDesk which is Joel Spolsky’s company’s project. It appears to be a similar product to Blog, but it isn’t as easy to use as Blog (IMHO) I think Joel needs to go back to Usability Guru School and spot some of his mistakes. I like the fact that I can start up Blog, and instantly be typing in a new entry, then press one button, and the page is deployed. Yes, CityDesk has some nice features, and it appears to be a well polished program (at $400/licence for the pro version it had better be) but it’s somewhat lacking in the ease of use department when compared to Blog (Thanks again Fahim)
Anyways, enough meta-weblog talk.
I have to get my Christmas shopping done at some point here - I’ve bought all of one gift thus far (though it’s Erin’s gift, so it’s the most important/difficult of them all :) I don’t know why, I just can’t get into Christmas shopping this year. Not like years past - maybe it’s because I don’t work retail anymore, though I’d have thought that would have the opposite effect on me. Oh well, I just have to get my butt in gear and do the shopping. I think I’ll go shopping tonight.
With the time I’ve got left this lunch hour, I’m going to work on the PHP conversion for this site, so wish me luck. If I break things too much, you can always visit the “old” version of this site at http://members.home.net/greg-mitchell though, if you don’t remember that, you won’t be able to come here to find the address anyways, and thus it might as well not exist…Not sure what the point of making that a link was :)
Simpson’s quote of the day: “Who needs a Quik-E-Mart?” - one of the lame-o song and dance numbers.