This is to announce the launch of the Paradox Designs wiki. The wiki will provide more details about stuff i cover on the blog, as well as a place for me to archive and store some things.
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As i promised a while back, the forums have relaunched, and this time, they are leagues better than they used to be. You will need new accounts to use them, but registration is safe, and you can still comment without registering.
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Facebook is great. It lets you share things with your friends, and does a good job by doing so. One problem is that many people have fairly boring profile pages. Usually they have one or 2 annoying apps, and nothing that is actually useful. There is a way you can integrate the various services you have an account on into your facebook, to make your page truly say who you are.
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This week, I have rolled out a few new features. Nothing major, but small things designed to improve your experience on this site. Things such as email subscriptions, related posts, Microsoft points icon, and a return of sharing.
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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.
<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>
<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>
A few days ago, I reviewed offline blog editor Blog Desk. (BlogDesk: Desktop blog editor.). I have since found a much better blog editor. This editor is Zoundry Raven. Its still in beta, yet it has more features and feels more stable than most of the other editors i tried.Its interface is clean, and very web2.0-ish, complete with silk icons and drop down configuration settings. It also supports wordpress far more than most of the other editors i tried.
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Well, today, after getting fed up with MU over a few things, I have decided to move back to plain old Wordpress. This decision was made for a number of reasons. First and foremost, I would never use MU as it was intended, and that is to create a blogging community. I was going to offer a few simple blogs here and there, and nothing really big, so I was using an overly complex program. Also, many of my favorite plugins would not work with MU, and these were useful. The only reason why I really started using MU in the first place was to mess with OpenID providers, and there really weren’t too many options in the MU provider, so nothing was keeping me. Now that I have switched, however, I have added a number of features back.
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Well, to make my site appear better, and more like what i had originally invisioned, i have spent the afternoon tweaking my css and php files to generate the newish version of the site. You should see the changes immediatly, but if you don’t, i will explain them. First off, each post now appears in a little box. The title is at the top, metadata is below it, content is in the center, and comment and view information is at the bottom. The comment count has been moved to the bottom of the post, to remedy some complaints about the word wrap eating it. Along it joins a new feature, views. These count how many times a post is viewed. They do not count my views.
Hope you guys enjoy these features.