SLUG Site Redesign

This weekend, I finished my redesign of the SLUG site. It now has (what I think to be) a cleaner design, and no longer uses tables for layout (with the possible exception of the NewsPortal pages).
I’ve also added a iCalendar version of our announcements that can be used with Mozilla Sunbird (or any other calendaring program that supports the protocol… KOrganizer can read the file, but I’m not sure if it’ll auto-update from the online one).
Anyways, give the page a look, and let me know what you think.

EDIT: I have confirmed that KOrganizer will auto-update a calendar from an online source, you just have to add it as ‘Calendar in Remote File’.

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15 Minutes of Internet Fame

This little site has gotten a lot more traffic than usual this week. My XFN Graph project got linked from Matthew Mullenweg’s site and has spread about the community a bit.
Luckily for me, this is my second 15 minutes of fame online. (The first being when I released png2html out into the wild)

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Wordpress

It’s been about two weeks since I switched from Blogger to Wordpress here on Geoff Holden.com, and I figured I’d let you in on how it’s going.

I think Wordpress is a great product, it was easy to set up, writing a custom theme for it was straightforward, and it had the ability to import all my old Blogger posts. It even has the ability to run multiple blogs out of one database (which is good if your host limits you to one, but you have multiple domains… it don’t apply to me, but it’s nice to have the option). What has me really impressed though, is the inclusion of Bookmarklets. I keep two on my Firefox personal toolbar, one that starts a new post with a link to the page I’m currently reading, and another that adds a new link to the page I’m currently on.

The plugin architecture is also really nice. I only have a couple installed so far, but I’m still going through them, deciding what I want.

BTW, I so need one of these.

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Major Site Overhaul

As you may have noticed (well, you had to notice if you’ve been reading this page… so all five of you should notice). This page just underwent a major overhaul. I necided that the old page had too many ‘words’ on it. It was too texty, and realisticially who was coming here to read the RSS feeds (with the exception of the SLUG site, which I may try to get back on here).
This overhaul also marked the move away from Blogger and to WordPress. Blogger was a fine start, but it’s nice to have the configurability that WordPress provides.

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Web Standards. IE, are you listening?

I started working on my presentation for my next SLUG talk Sunday evening. As I’ve previously mentioned here, I decided to do it in Eric Meyer’s S⁵. The experience has been pretty good overall, I managed to modify a theme I liked to give it a personal feel. Now, the interesting part was when I opened it up on Internet Explorer at work and got this. Now, if you’re like me at all, your first thought would be “What the hell are those odd lines?”, well those odd lines are the borders of a table on a different slide, who’s div is currently invisible. What’s really odd is that after the slide with the table is displayed, the lines go away. The less noticable problem is that IE didn’t even make an attempt at showing my Tux watermark (maybe it determined that it’s the Linux logo and simply refused to advertise for Microsoft’s competition). This is what the title slide looks like in a proper browser.

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