And I think I have problems converting my site over to WordPress. This is an amazingly thorough study called Archiving Smithsonian Websites: An Evaluation and Recommendation for a Smithsonian Institution Archives Pilot Project. It looks, step-by-painful-step, at the process the Smithsonian took to convert their websites to database driven power sites. WOW! I will be […]

After treading carefully around the PHP and coding of WordPress, I have become fearless. I just installed the WP Plugin Manager and wish I had done this months ago. Today I bravely added the following plug-ins, hacks and changes, and I am thrilled with the results. StatTraq A PHP function that works with WordPress to […]

Okay, I made a lot of mistakes along the way to forcing my static HTML information into the WordPress database. In an effort to help others learn from my mistakes and compromises, I present mine to the world so you can see that a lot of hard work and screw ups went into the finished […]

Throughout this long and tedious process, I even tried manually importing my static html pages into WordPress, after they had been converted to XHTML, cleaned up and restructured to meet the manual MySQL import layout. Since I was working with material I’d already cleaned up, changing it from the import-mt format to the MySQL import […]

I’d validated a lot of the HTML of my web pages, then ran it through a conversion from HTML to XHTML, and searched and replaced across the multiple files to eliminate the redundant styles, HTML structures, meta tags, javascripts, and unwanted elements, reducing it down to the Title, Author, Excerpt, and Body content. What remained […]

When I’d search and replaced the parts of each page that could be eliminated, I needed to start the next series of search and replaces which would turn the information into the MoveableType format. Following the guidelines set up in the article MoveableType Instructions for Importing Data, I had a format to follow and a […]

Setting up the “look” of your blog can be painful if you aren’t familiar with CSS and HMTL. Bloggia Weblog Hosting helps you create your own WordPress Blog “look” or theme. It’s really easy to do and fun to be creative with the different colors, but it doesn’t allow you to adjust column width other […]

Every web page developer and designer has their own unique way of presenting their code, and packaged HMTL software packages often overcode their output, so no matter how hard you worked to streamline your code and make it consistent and valid, there will always be exceptions to your own rules. You still have to go […]

Once I had a grip on the language of PHP and an understanding of MySQL, I needed to start thinking about how it would convert into database material. And I needed to figure out how to get this information not only into the database, but to meet WordPress’ needs for generating the content. Nothing is […]

[Note: The following is the thought process I went through as I slowly turned my site over from static HTML to WordPress, a database driving PHP-enabled site management system built originally for bloggers. Following along with this, you will learn that many of my first assumptions turned out to be wrong, and others were smack […]

[Note: The following is the thought process I went through as I slowly turned my site over from static HTML to WordPress, a database driving PHP-enabled site management system built originally for bloggers. Following along with this, you will learn that many of my first assumptions turned out to be wrong, and others were smack […]

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Interesting article on blogging from the Washington Post called Start a Winning Blog. If you are thinking about blogging, or already at it, you can learn a few things here about the business behind the blog. Mobile, Alabama