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New RSS feed linksGreetings RSS users! I've recently made some changes to my feeds including their URLs. The new default feed URLs are located here:
I did create a rewrite rule in my .htaccess file for anyone accessing the old URL to be automatically redirected to the new URL. So if you or your RSS reader is using the old URL then you shouldn't see an issue. But I don't want to keep that rewrite rule around forever, so please update your readers. I also somehow removed the RSS links from the <head> of my page (probably while rebuilding my template system for the 100th time), but they're back now.
It's that time of year again. Or is it that time of quarter? I don't know. Either way, I'm tired of looking at my current site design and so I'm creating a new one. I've actually been sick of my current design for awhile now. It's just that I haven't had the time or effort for creating a new one. Plus, I needed to update my template system to play nice with any new templates that I create. Anyways, I finally got motivated and you can check out a preview of the new design here:
And as you can see, to celebrate another birthday WebNV got a complete makeover. I decided to go for a more streamlined, simple look. It still needs some finishing touches here and there, but overall the design is done. I wasn't actually going to bust out this design until the beginning of next year, but due to my 9rules acceptance and site birthday, I thought I'd rush and try to get it finished today. I am still having some issues with IE6 support, but other than that most of the CSS coding is done. What do you think?
Can't wait! As you can see, I'm going back in black. I was originally going to submit the 'light' colored theme for the new reboot, but eh....I guess white isn't really my color. Well I don't know. I actually think it depends on what I'm listening to while working on my site. Lately I've been listening to this new hardcore punk bank called This is Hell. They fucking rock. And well, now my site is darker and more reflective of my personality.
I finally got a tag cloudNever do I feel such a sense of accomplishment as I do when I spend over a week doing some hardcore coding, and logic thinking to finally see my finished product. After several trials and errors I finally have a working tag cloud. For those who don't know, a tag cloud pretty much shows what I post about the most. The bigger the tag (category) in the cloud, the more post that are related to it. You can check out an official definition of a tag cloud here.
Hey everyone. This is just an update. I've been beefing up a lot of the security on this site lately. I've mostly been upping the security for the Comments and Search forms on this site. I did have some checks and security in place to stop crap like SQL injections and such, but it was kind of lame. So I've done some proper security updates.
I've gotten a few request these past few months about offering a lighter themed version of this site. Some people I guess don't like dark sites. It's hard for some people to read. So I created a new css file that can be used on this site. Well, actually it's a modified version of my original css theme that I created when I first started this site.
Damn it. For the past few days now this site has been getting a lot of spam comments. I don't know how. I have the security image/capatcha thing in place and working. This capatcha tool is used to stop spam robots from posting tons of shit comments on my site for advertising purposes. It's been working great for the past several months now.
I originally helped create this web site a few years ago (mainly created the scheduler form).
Right now I'm just working on the most important part of the web site, the scheduler form. This time the form writes and pull info from a database so it's a lot more functional and well managed. You can check out the form here >> AutoAppointment Schedule. The form is mostly done, minus a few cosmedic/informative details. If any willing people want to try it out, go a head. I need a good selection of people to fill out this form and try to break it any way possible. You can just fill it out with fake info and let me know of any issues or suggestions you have.
Yes, I did it again. Sorry. Like I've mentioned tons of times before, I'm never happy with my sites. I'll create something and like it for a month or two. Then I'll start getting bored with it and finding all these design issues I don't like. So what do I do? Instead of making minor changes here and there, I revamp most of the design.
For awhile now, I've been trying to figure out how to have section that list just the most popular or most liked posts on this site. Or maybe list links to the most popular stories on the right hand side.
Windows Vista is Microsoft's next operating system (OS) scheduled for release sometime in 2006. Hopefully we'll get some more info on this new OS at this years CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. CES should be starting later this week. While I don't know a lot of technical aspects of Vista, all I do know is that is looks awesome - design wise. Vista has a more updated, modern design look than Windows XP did. It just looks more streamlined and smooth.
Comments and spamThe comments system is back up and running again on this site. For the past several days I've been fighting spam showing up in the comments area.
It's these damn bots that crawl or surf the site and post 'fake' comments that do nothing more than spam it up with advertisments. I freakin' hate it. It got so bad that every few minutes I would have to go in and delete four or five new entries. I finally disabled the comments until I could figure out what to do to stop the spam.
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Oct 04, 2007
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