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 […]

Even bloggers can win awards, a whole variety of them. Winners have been announced at 2004 Weblog Awards. Mobile, Alabama

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

There is a lot about WordPress and PHP that I’m still learning. I did my first PHP mySQL query today as part of the installation of Wasabi’s Related Posts WordPress Plugin. This is a truly AWESOME WordPress plugin. Unfortunately, the help file isn’t very helpful when it comes to explaining how to access your mySQL […]

I found an interesting collection of WordPress plugins from Unknowngenius.com’s WordPress Plugins Database. Worth checking out. Mobile, Alabama

After a bunch of searching, I found a way to create a separation between the categories under the title of each blog entry, following “Filed Under”. It is called a “category separator”. Look in the index.php file for <?php the_category() ?> and in the parentheses, if there is nothing there, you can put something there. […]