The keener eyed amongst you will notice that the current web address from which you are viewing this blog is http://blog.riddian.com. What is this all about then? Well, I'm testing things out. My blog is normally run from home from my own very old (think P120) server. It's now running on my paid hosting account at dreamhost.com. The reason for this is because, I am currently updating my blog, code wise. I have upgraded to a more current version of the blogs engine plus I might end up changing the theme a bit more than I already have (notice the shadow?).

Yes there is a Poll block! You saw it eh? Well that's all thanks to my good friend Marco who coded it a long time ago, it's never been put to use on my blog until now though. Another feature that I am in the process of completing (hence the real reason for this temporary move) is comment reply notification. My server doesn't send emails at the moment so that's not much use to me when I need to test a system that emails people

UPDATE (22-03-07): The news categories block has vanished, but fear not for it has been replaced by a "Tag Cloud" box. The first of few developments perhaps? Am I about to embark on another project using the source from my blog? Who knows, but I will say this. I will be releasing my blog's source code soon Also the site has had a slight layout redesign, goodbye block, hello navigation bar complete with icons. Look, a new background, rather nice for my near total lack of art skills.

That's all, nothing exciting sorry just a general "heads up".



2 Comments

Dugahole Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Joined: 27/03/05	Blog is looking good, not sure it is any faster though. I have to say to I am not a huge fan of the Tag Cloud, it looks out of place because of the font sizes but it doesnt really matter. I might have a play around with your source code too if you release it

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05

Thanks, I can see what you mean about the tag cloud but then again that is how they are supposed to look, i.e. the most popular tags have the biggest sizes. I might change it back, just noticed a lot of other blogs have it and thought it would be fun to code. It's a bit more "human" than just statistical numbers. I believe that's the idea behind it. Yeah, when I feel it's stable enough I'll release it. Seeing as I have just upgraded the site I want to give it a chance for a few bugs to show.

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