Tag Archive for 'Website'

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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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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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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Pastebins and Quote Databases Suck
April 12, 20086:55:26 pm
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I spent the past afternoon fighting with several quote database and pastebin scripts. This has allowed me to draw the conclusion that these scripts suck ass.

Quote Database

I spent a long amount of time trying to get a quote database set up. I tried many things, all of them failed. All the quote databases i tried either sucked, were too ugly to use, or didn’t work with my setup. The last one, those that didn’t work with my setup, was most annoying, because i have a webhost with perl installed, and i followed the instructions in the install files to the letter, yet nothing.

Pastebins

Giving up on the quote db, i decided to use a pastebin. I went to the big pastebin, pastebin.com. and downloaded their application. Lo and behold, the MySQl code in the installer doesnt work.

As such, i have had a very stressful day.

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