I wrote a quick php script to convert my custom db stored blog posts into Wordpress format and insert them into my new database.. it seems to have gone alright, there’s a couple of errors but I’ll fix them over the next few days
Going to have to spend a bit of time creating categories too but that shouldn’t take too long
Oh, also the site template! I think I’ll create something new anyway 
I’ve decided to ditch my custom CMS for the time being - unfortunately I haven’t really got the time or inclination to work on developing it right now.
I’ll retroactively add my existing posts to this Wordpress installation as some of them were quite useful!
I was having great difficulty in pasting a zebra table (with <tr class="odd"> for odd rows) into the Wordpress TinyMCE editor…
After messing around with the sourcecode for a while I realised that the TinyMCE editor_plugin.js was the culprit.. after commenting out the “Handle table badness.” bit I could give my rows classes
At the moment I don’t have time to look into the issue further and provide a real solution
I realise I could’ve used some sort of Zebra Table javascript but in this case manually formatting the rows was the order of the day
Regarding this website.. unfortunately I just don’t have the time to finish building my custom CMS so in the near future I will probably base it off a heavily customised Wordpress install… watch this space
I’ve been working on my ColourBase website recently.
I decided that rather than have a half assed publishing system (like the currently unfinished one I use on this website), that I would instead try to integrate WordPress into the existing website..
It seems to have worked quite well!
I will probably adopt it here, I think that’s the best bet until I can finish my own system completely
As you can see, I’ve limited the articles displayed on the front page.. currently it’s set to the last 5 modified articles but it may change in the future
What this really means is that I need to get my butt in gear and create an article archive, article search and basically produce a proper design for this website
Watch this space!
I submitted a request to Googlebot on 30th November to remove all pages relating to my /forums/ as there’s stuff still indexed/cached in Google that’s not been there for months
I noticed today that in the past couple of days the status of the request had changed to completed.. so I search google site:www.influenced.net and there’s still a lot of stuff that’s indexed under /forums/ which doesn’t exist.. so what the heck has been completed exactly?
I’m going to retry it via a rule to deny indexing the /forums/ folder in robots.txt and see what happens..
Edit: robots.txt seems to have done the trick
I have removed the forums for the time being as they weren’t really used anyway and a recent upgrade to MySQL 5 caused some malfunctions..
Soon I will be implementing new forums, probably with phpBB as vBulletin is a little overkill for their job at the moment
Hopefully this will also aid in getting the old crap removed from Google - it remained because the new forums wouldn’t throw a 404 for a missing topic etc, so Google still thought the index topic links were valid
I’ve not had much time to post recently due to numerous time sinks that I’ve been involved with recently, however I should be back on track very soon..
I recently purchased the domain ColourBase.com for hosting my colour formulation database software and probably a new web based interface for it… I AJAX’d the old interface a long time ago now, before AJAX was AJAX!
I guess you’ll just have to watch this space until it’s done
Update: a small plug for my dads new domain: Len Hutton. There’s nothing there at the moment but I’m sure there will be soon
I’ve just been messing about with the site “engine” (not much at the moment admittedly) and was thinking - why not just publish all articles to RSS and make the front page a generic RSS reader?
I might give it a whirl some time in the future and see how it comes out, sounds like it should work…
I’ve read a couple of articles about the markup necessary to display Flash content in a XHTML page and validate fully.. e.g. The Satay Method
I was just thinking - instead of using a Flash container movie to load other movies (so IE can stream).. can’t you just create a HTML page with a DocType which allows the Flash mumbo-jumbo, then embed that via the object tag? Would the double object embed work?
I think I’ll try this later and report my findings