Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Web/Blog Tools
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Okay, so I’ve installed WordPress 1.5 and it works well. No problems with the install on my web host, it connects to Ecto fine and from the comments in the blogosphere is handles spam well. Plus it has a polling module which I want to add. But getting it to look like I want could…
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Looks promising – Greasemonkey – a user-centric model for controlling the content you see in your web browser. See Wired 13.09: START : Monkeying With the Web. Arvind at Movalog notes that the new MT 3.2 styles and layout lend itself to Greasemonkey style hacking.
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I’ve been playing around with this over the past few days. Looks like it will be a toss-up between WordPress and the new, improved Movable Type for this blog. Only have one author for this personal blog so licensing isn’t the issue it might be for multi-author type blogs. The style management in MT3.2 looks…
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For those of you running Movable Type 3.2 here’s an online web-based tool to generate a new stylesheet for your blog. Ingenious. See – Movalog : Movable Type Style Generator. Via Elise at Learning Movable Type: Movable Type Style Generator.
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I’ll be tinkering with stylesheets and the blog layout over the next week or so – primarily to reorganize a few things, but also to fix some problems with Internet Explorer. If you arrive and things look different/broken don’t panic – try again later. I’ll try and make changes in increments (and offline) but sometimes…
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Grabbed these two books off the shelf in the public library because the covers and titles looked interesting. They’re definitely “coffee table” books – glossy, well laid out, striking design. Contentwise they’re light and fluffy (and being books about the web a little dated). What is really, really good about them is the showcase of…
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This week I’m trying to sort out the broadband dilemma that we’ve been landed with. We have our (primitive) broadband connection with our ISP (owned by Telco #1) and have our phone account (local and toll) with Telco #2. This has worked well in the past because ISP #1 has been good to us and…
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This book looks interesting. Engaging Technology in Theological Education: All That We Can’t Leave Behind by Mary E. Hess. Link to Mary Hess’ faculty overview here. Link to additional resources here. (Including links to the Religious Education and Challenge of Media Culture Project and her dissertation “Media literacy in religious education: Engaging popular culture to…
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May hold off on changing over to something like Drupal or WordPress until this is sorted out. From Netcraft: PHP Blogging Apps Vulnerable to XML-RPC Exploits, Many popular PHP-based blogging, wiki and content management programs can be exploited through a security hole in the way PHP programs handle XML commands. The flaw allows an attacker…