This post is a follow up to other posts I have made in the past. Instead of creating a bunch of separate posts, I am just throwing them in altogether. Sorry for the delay on new stuff, I will be posting more regularly soon.
Follow-up #1: 300
While casually checking the net for cool shit, I came across a comic to screen comparison of the movie “300“. I wrote about seeing “300″ a few weeks ago and I still think that movie owns. The comparison is on some guys Flickr account. He took scans from the comic book and stills from the movie and compared them. From the look of things the movie stayed pretty close to the comic. Check it: 300 Comic to Screen Comparison.
Follow-up #2: Flickr
Lately I have been cleaning up my Flickr site. I added all the pictures to map locations and organized them in sets. I went through and tagged them all for so you can easily search for them. In other Flickr news, Flickr will be opening up the Hong Kong market shortly, and after will release a version for Taiwan. Click here to read the BBC News article on the subject.
Follow-up #3: Main Page
I am testing out a new theme for my main page since I am not a fan of how it looks anymore. It looks rather out dated and rough around the edges. So since I own Frostfox.info, I have decided to use it as a testing ground to decide which will be the new main page. Go check them out and vote for which one looks best on the sidebar of Frostfox.info. (update: went a different direction and picked something different.)
Follow-up #4: Construction
This part I haven’t touched on before. While some of the changes to the site have been cosmetic the majority of the changes have been “under the hood”. One of the previous unmentioned on is a plugin that makes any word on the page double clickable(currently disabled). Try it, pick any word and see the results, sometimes it will only give you a definition and pronunciation, other times it will give you some kind of reference. I’m not sure if I want to keep it active, just testing it right now.
For most readers this information might not make much sense, but to the bloggers out there it might help out a lot. One of the greatest things about using Wordpress is the plugins. Here is a list of some of the most useful plugins that I use. Hope you get some uses from them.
- Akismet - Akismet checks your comments against the it’s web service to see if they look like spam or not.
- Dean’s Permalinks Migration - You can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website, and even doesn’t hurt your Google pagerank.
- Firefox spellcheck - Re-enables Firefox spell checking in the visual editor.
- Google Sitemaps - This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your Wordpress blog.
- Search Everything - Adds search functionality with little setup. Including options to search pages, attachments, drafts, comments and custom fields (metadata).
- Sociable - Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites.
- Sidebar Widgets - If your theme supports sidebars, I highly suggest using them. No more editing PHP files, it’s all drag and drop.
- Feedburner Feed Replacement - Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents.
- AnswerTips - AnswerTips are small bubbles of information triggered by double clicking on any word on a site.
Did you know the Wordpress has a hidden toolbar when your writing your posts? I’m not sure why this isn’t more documented, because it’s incredibly useful. To access the hidden toolbar go to “Your Profile” and turn on “Use the visual editor when writing”, then when writing a new post just hit alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) to toggle it on or off.
That’s it! Of course I could of made like 4 posts out of all of that, but I thought I’d save you some time. Your welcome!
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