Well, the menubar on the right hand side is now pretty much working… I think that’s just about everything with the blog, for now! There are some little things (for example, the ‘recent updates’ won’t update itself unless you view the main page), but I don’t think it’s really a big issue. I mean, I don’t think that I update the blog often enough tha it would affect someone, let alone inconvenience them…
Woo-hoo!
Firstly, just a quick note about the blog: the blog system itself is virtually finished 🙂 There are still some features that I’d like to add (for example, templates which aren’t coded in PHP), and perhaps some form of administration system (just something to collect all the little bits and pieces together), but apart from that I’m quite happy.
Like I said previously — if you would like a copy of the blog system, then let me know! I might write up some documentation and stuff, especially if I make it a bit easier to install, but if you’d like to “pre-order” your (free) copy then get in touch 🙂
Now, the weekend. I went up to Colchester on Saturday afternoon, to see Philippa. In the evening we went out for a meal to Toto’s, in Colchester. It was very nice! Although the minestrone soup we had for starter was very filling, I couldn’t manage all of my main course. Then we went to Waffles for the rest of the evening and had some cocktails (mmm… cocktails… nice!)
On Sunday, we went to the chaplaincy service. Then Philippa went to her choir rehearsal and I went round to Anne-Marie and Esther’s to play ‘Scategories’ (I’m not sure how you’re supposed to spell it) with Phil P, Phil B, and Alex as well as Anne-Marie and Esther. Afterwards me, Phil P and Alex went back to Claremont Road, and we had an evening just chatting and watching some episodes of ‘Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)’. I have to say it was a rather strange series, but quite funny in places 🙂
And, then I came home, and went to work today… it’s an exciting life I lead! I’d better be off to bed… night all!
Well, this site is very nearly past its “test” status… I’ve pretty much finished the blog system for now. It’s got as many features as I want it to have… obviously that’s not a huge number, but still!
All I have to do now is the right hand menu bar and the photos section. The right hand menu bar – piece of cake. The photos section I’m not looking forward to at all…
… takes a long time to install! I’ve been setting up an ‘Oracle CM SDK Domain’ for a while now… I think everything Oracle takes a long time, especially when you’re running on an old Pentium III Xeon (550 MHz).
And after this post, things will start becoming archived…
Incidentally, if you want a blog system that’s written in PHP, drop me a line. If I get enough interest, I’ll add some more features 🙂 At the moment it’s fairly basic, but I prefer it to blogger (because at least on your own server you’re not going to have 99% downtime like Blogger seem to have. Ok, that’s probably a bit unfair, but I just prefer to run things on my own server with my own code… and also I prefer the XML way to their template way, which is very inefficient! – This way, you can change the templates without having to republish the entire site. Handy. Although it requires PHP, a lot of websites have that these days. Anyway…)
I’m just adding another blog entry to test the archive functionality. Incidentally, I’ll have to code ‘recent updates’ and ‘archives’ on the right hand side… make them actually work!
I don’t know whether I’ll leave these initial posts up here when I actually transfer the blog across… not that it really matters. I just want to fill up space for the time being 🙂