Archive for August, 2002

Photolog multiple columns…

Friday, August 30th, 2002

Was reminded of this script by looking through my referrers… had forgotten about it. Wanted to post it here so I don’t lose it again. :)
The following script is really designed for a photo log… it will set up your page (MT specific) so that it automatically generates a table with 3 columns (You can actually customize it to be however number of columns you choose…
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Pretty Pictures

Thursday, August 29th, 2002

I’m in the progress of creating a “web design” gallery: screenshots of sites I happen to stumble across whose design (I think) is kinda cool. The purpose of this site is to collect a variety of types of designs, for inspiration.

The site is VERY MUCH in progress… There’s a number of things I still want to add. And while for it’s own design, I’d like to be as simple and played down as possible (so you can just focus on the screenshots), it’s not yet where I want it to be… I just threw it together this morning.

Scriptygoddess :: PrettyPictures

Trackback standalone released!

Thursday, August 29th, 2002

This is just a public service announcement that Ben and Mena of Moveable Type have released a Trackback Standalone product, along with instructions for implimentation across a number of blogging tools! It can be downloaded here

Rock on!

Clippings: bookmarks in your site

Thursday, August 29th, 2002

I came across this awesome article that shows how to add some javascript to your site that will allow users to “clip” or bookmark particular entries at your site for easy reference later on. If you want to have a look, I’ve implimented this in most sections of my site.
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New… uh… “goddess”?? sort of…

Wednesday, August 28th, 2002

There’s a new scriptyPERSON (politically correctness here). Please extend a warm welcome to our new goddess… uh… I mean scriptyPerson… PROMOGUY!.

More detailed comment notification

Monday, August 26th, 2002

Promoguy’s got a nice MT hack that sends you more specific info in the subject line of your comment notifications. And another one that gives you that info for trackback notifications. Neato!!

(ie. Instead of getting emails with subject lines that say “[PromoGuy dot Net] New TrackBack Ping”, you’ll get: “New TrackBack on [My Mouth Is Doing the Happy Dance] from [PromoGuy dot Net]“, well, heh, only if you have that for your post title. ;-)

Feedback

Saturday, August 24th, 2002

Update 8/24: Ok - so the masses have spoken. Soon to be implemented:
Collapse/Expand more entries, and shortcut links for bold/italic/links in comments. :)
Well, we talk about a lot of bells and whistles you can add to your blog, but only a few actually make it into THIS blog. (More because there just isn’t enough hours in the day) So here’s your chance to “request a feature”…

I put up a poll on the sidebar (butterfly skin only at the moment - goddesses, if you could incorporate it into your designs as well, that’d be cool… but I didn’t want to hack around in them…). Cast your vote for what feature/features you’d like to see… I only listed a few up there, if there’s something you want that’s not on that list, leave it in the comments in this post… I may or may not add it to the “voting booth”…

Thanks!

(if you voted when I first posted this, I did something and completely wrecked the original poll… had to upload new files and everything. I never said I was a “real scriptygoddess” LOL!) Feel free to vote again…

Comment hack

Friday, August 23rd, 2002

This is a really useful one (to me), and so I am posting it in multiple places! Comment notification hack

Here’s what Adam says…

So I opened up the MT source code and fixed it. Now when I add a comment, I don?t get the email.

Thanks to Mariann for pointing out this one to me!

Coloristic

Thursday, August 22nd, 2002

This is the second or third time I’ve had to search for this: so I’m posting the link here so I can find it when I need it again:

Coloristic (a really cool little application that tells you what a color’s values are in either RGB, or Web/Hex…etc.)

XML and PHP Without Server Changes

Tuesday, August 20th, 2002

When hosting in a shared environment (or a virtual server), sometimes there are things you’re just not allowed to do. Normally this involves installing or upgrading apache add-ons, and sometimes the server admins say no. This handy article gives you information on Using XML with PHP without any apache changes. “There’s a very quick and dirty way to use XML to generate your pages, by using two really easy PHP functions and some clever HTML.” Great info!