Oops, ran out of disk space on the server – that’s why it wasn’t, y’know, “serving” for the last few hours1. Sorry about that, everything should be back up and running now, albeit a bit slowly as things settle back in. A guess based on e-mail inactivity. [back]
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Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. 1024×768 was a pretty good sized monitor resolution, and was probably the standard for laptops, back in 2002. As such, I designed the previous version of this site to fit in an 800×600 screen – or common resolution minus…
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One thing that I (temporarily) removed out of indecision in the redesign was the meta tag for a feed on the alexking.org home page. It’s something some folks rely on, so it needs to go back in. On the old site, the home page had a meta tag for the news feed, the content of…
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I used Crazy Egg to create before (v1) and after (v2) heatmaps of alexking.org. Unfortunately I didn’t take screenshots of the v1 heatmap and it turns out that the heatmap display uses the current live site as the background – not a saved screenshot along with the old test. This seriously hampers the usefulness of…
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Note: This is the third in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. The old site navigation was basically in several parts: The main tree menu along the left Breadcrumbs and landing pages Blog archives, categories and search in the blog sidebar Not too much has changed fundamentally in the new design,…
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Note: This is the second in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. It was probably in early 2004 when I started feeling enough dissatisfaction with my site that I wanted to re-build it. I took some of those thoughts and put them into the Tasks Pro™ web site I built in…
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Another new addition to alexking.org in v2 is some link blog functionality. I really enjoy the timely commentary of link blogs like Ethan’s and John’s, and recently I’ve been wanting to add more commentary to more of the links I add to my weekly Around the web posts. The link blog entries: have a slightly…
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Note: This is the first in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. So now that the new site is live and I’ve had a chance to fix most of the re-launch related bugs, it’s time to share a little about the process that went into building this version of the site.…
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alexking.org v2 is now live and I have to run out to volleyball. I think most stuff should work – post bug reports in the comments. 🙂 UPDATE: a good deal of wonkiness has been fixed – I’m sure some stuff is still busted. And to answer those who have asked, yes I’ll be doing…
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A few days ago my Performancing Ad price was set (by their algorithm) at $257. This morning I got 2 e-mails updating my site’s ad price. At 4:45 AM MDT an e-mail notified me that the price dropped to $107. At 4:55 AM MDT another e-mail notified me that the price dropped again to $54.…
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Finally, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel for my new site. 🙂 The content has all been converted, and I spent a few hours today merging the databases to test that everything works as it should. I’ve already done the IE testing, and things seem to work properly so far.…
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With IE 7 out, I’ll be taking a little time (another week or so) to make sure the new versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks don’t have any issues there before the upcoming releases. A slight delay, but probably a worthwhile one. I haven’t seen any isues yet in my light testing, but that doesn’t…
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Performancing notified me that they’ve determined an ad price for my site: $257. That’s pretty good. If they can get that rate, I’ll probably leave the ads up – big graphics or no (well, unless they are really tacky). 🙂 I’ve set it to sell 3 ads to start – we’ll see how it goes.…
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I signed up for the new Performancing ads to test them out. You’ll see them in the sidebar under the Google ads (which you may or may not have greasemonkey’ed out). 😉 I’m not sure I like having graphical ads (these seem big), and I don’t yet have a “price” from them so the ads…
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I’ve been working on v2 of this site for a lot longer than I expected (the original plan was a week, ha!). Part of the reason is that I keep putting off the boring content conversion in favor of fun plugin development. I need to buckle down and finish converting the content, or I’ll never…