Valhalla Island

I forgot that comment moderation was on by default in Wordpress. Emailing whenever a comment is made is also on by default. I think comment moderation is being over cautious, maybe it’s good for fighting spam. The ‘allow if been previously approved’ thing is cool but approving everyone at first would just take way too long.

My Dad emailed me tonight saying that he was impressed with the site and asking a few questions about putting a site together for his hotel. I thought that was really nice. Court’s comment on the last post was great too.

There’s still a few bugs with the layout. The footer is pretty bland. There’s some CSS effects I’d like to try but I’m waiting for my copy Zen of CSS Design to arrive that I ordered a month ago. Booktopia has been very slow but I don’t think it has been their fault, the supplier was out of stock. $6.50 shipping on unlimited books is very good though.

After a lot of work the Fix-26 site is up. It uses some PHP I’ve recently learnt and uses a cool VB script I wrote to create some fast thumbnail galleries with IrFanView. I’ll put it up on the projects page for download. If you ever have had to manually code thumbnail galleries you’ll love this tool. Also on the projects page I might list some of the free software I use.

Soon I’ll be learning how to set up a Linux machine running Apache as a host which I am excited about. I’ll be able to host everything I do. I’m going to start researching Distributions. I hear Ubuntu and Mandrake are very good.

While I think of it, there’s a program called publishPDF which is only $45 and looks like it’d be good. Everyone argues about PDFs but I like them and this program would make it very easy. There’s something really nice about being able to publish something that will look identical on any computer. IE doesn’t even support the CSS :hover function on anything except anchors.

I also almost forgot to say what I was doing about that short story community/showcase idea until Bill reminded me. It’s still going ahead. I’m about 1/8th of the way through a course at TAFE that will hopefully give me the skills I’ll need to make it. It’ll be a huge project though and will take time and extensive testing. It’s definately going to be done and finished though, I have big ideas.