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Some site optimizations
July 10, 200810:20:36 am
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Well, my site was running a bit slow, so i decided to speed things up a bit. Now, the site is much faster.

The way i increased the preformance was quite simple really. The large banner at the top of the page wasa png image. Png is good for smaller images, but for large ones, it just really doesn’t cut it. However, jpg does work for large images without transparancy, and thats what this one is. So now the image is a progressive jpg, so the page can load wile the image is loading, and still look good.

Also, you may notice that the footer has gotten a makeover. This is partly because that area of the site got no attention, and because i like visual flare.

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Back
July 9, 200810:15:32 pm
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Sorry about the downtime, it appears that Site5’s DNS servers were having a bit of trouble. I am back in all my glory, and will continue to post, to make up for that lack of content.

Thanks for visiting again.

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I know where you live
June 23, 20082:07:43 pm
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<p>This is by no means unique to this blog, but it has taken enough effort to get set up, i feel like sharing it. Now, whenever someone posts a comment, the little info box at the bottom (the thing with their os, browser stats, etc) will show their country too. Nothing too complicated.</p> <p>What sets this aside from most of the other ones i have seen is that this one uses the beautiful famfamfam country icons. Most use some proprietary icon set, that doesn't look as good.</p> <p>Hope you guys enjoy this.</p>
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P-G-Qvm 1.6.1 Released
June 22, 20082:13:20 pm
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Yet another release of P-G-Qvm. This one is not as big as the other, but still substantial, and introduces quite a few features, as well as a few bugfixes.


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Facebook
June 18, 20089:10:02 am
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For those of you who are friends on my facebook account (you know who you are), I have added a feature to my page there, that ties in with this blog. When i post an update, it will appear on my newsfeed too. It will also show up in a small content box on the site.

Hope you guys enjoy this.

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Disclaimer
May 26, 20082:47:28 pm
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<p>You may notice that on a number of articles, a disclaimer has been popping up. I have added this disclaimer to posts because a number of blog authors have reciently been sued for the stupidity of readers. Not wanting to be sued, i have taken an approach where by reading and following the instructions on a post, you waive liability. Nothing to fret about, i will not post anything dangerous, but just to be on the legal side.</p> <p>The warning looks like this:</p> <p><div class="alert">Paradox Designs is not responsible for any damage that is caused by the contents of the following post. By reading this post, you waive all liability against Paradox Designs. Basically, use this at your own risk.</div></p>
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Forums
May 11, 20082:48:20 pm
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These past few days, I have added a forum to Paradox Designs. This isnt like your average forum, though. This is much cleaner and better.


When you first visit the forums, you should notice how uncluttered it is. This is what I intended. Most modern forum software tries to shove all the content at you at once, whereas this forum lets you choose what you want to see. The emphasis is taken away from individual forums, and instead put on tags and popularity. The forums now become more like categories.


But thats not all. Signing up for a forum account also gets you a comment account on the blog. You can post, edit, and track your comments. Thats right, one account for both services.


I hope you guys enjoy it, and please report any bugs you may have.


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Useful comment spam indicator
May 4, 20081:51:07 pm
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1 month old!
May 1, 20089:32:45 pm
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<p>Well, although my official launch was some time around the 5th of April, I started setting everything up on the 1st, so this site is now 1 month old.</p> <p>In that month, the following has happened:</p> <ul> <li>First design went up, stayed up for about 2 weeks <ul><li>Featured ajax<ul><li>Cool, but slow</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Second design went up, due to complaints about speed and preformance of 1st layout</li> <li>Second design stayed up</li> <li>2nd column added</li> <li>Small amounts of ajax added</li> <li>327 Unique visits</li> <li>511.88 MB transferred</li> <li>48332 hits</li> <li>11510 pages served</li> <li>1 visitor from an iPhone</li> </ul> <p>All in all, it was a very successful month.</p> <p>And dont worry, this is a one time occurance, i wont post these zeitgeists every month, only when records are broken.</p>
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A peppering of ajax
May 1, 20089:24:05 pm
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<p>Don't be afraid, im not going all out ajax like I did with my first edition of this site. All i have done is add a bit of ajax. A little teeny bit. You likely will rarely ever notice it.</p> <h3>Calendar</h3> <p>Yes, the calendar is back. I rethemed it, and now it matches this theme much better. Now you can see what i post when. Its just as fast as it was before, and just as easy to use. You can see it in the 2nd column</p> <h3>AutoMore</h3> <p>This is what i like to call it. Basically, now when your reading over my blog, and you want to read more of an article, and there is a more link, you dont have to wait for a page refresh, the content loads inline. This allows you to read the full article, and then read others, all seamlessly. Want the page to shrink back down? click the hide link at the bottom of the post, and it will zoom back up to its old format, allowing you to scroll much easier.</p> <p>What do you guys think about these ajax changes?</p>
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