Welcome to the new site!
BootBlock | 1 October, 2007
Here’s the new site, just like I said. I like being right as it makes a change.
So, what can you expect in this new place? Hopefully more posts. My posting frequency went to shit on the other site due to just not being arsed. Now I can post in a browser without having to be sat in-front of the main PC any-more – that, I like. I could have just added browser posting support to Planarchy, but eh.
I originally went with Joomla! instead of Wordpress (which is what you’re looking at right now, but it really started to piss me off when I couldn’t make use of the new FTP layer feature and spouted a load of crap about file permissions. So I moved over to WordPress.
Joomla! was a true content management system, as opposed to Wordpress’ blogging… thing. It’s probably a good thing in the end as WordPress uses a vastly smaller amount of resources to run.
To see how this site looked when I was running it with Joomla!, take a look at the current BlockBox test site. BlockBox being the new name of the WhiteBox HTPC software I’m working on. WhiteBox, as a name, was a bit too prolific for my taste. Shame as I really liked the name and it’s actually the name of my PC media player that sits under the telly.
But anyway, this site isn’t entirely complete, but I thought I’d unveil it at this point. There are numerous reasons why I went and trashed the old domain (it’s just a pointer to this one, now). Which I can’t be bothered going in to. One reason, at least, is to use a blogging system that isn’t tied to my desktop PC and I’d feel more comfortable making more regular posts with. I didn’t finish the editor in Planarchy and it had a weird sort of clinical feel to it that I didn’t much care for.
So, yeah. Expect more posts from me if I don’t get stupidly lazy again.
Wait…this is WordPress?
Aye, that it is! There’s a funny story about that… actually, there isn’t.
I’ll explain my perverted reasons when this site becomes official.
Also – did I allow you to look at your referrals? Because I don’t think I did. Stop it, man.
Wordpress is excellent. My referrals are excellent.
Referrers, I meant. Damn. I also agree that WordPress is great.
A little tip though – you will really need some kind of captcha on here. As soon as your site is indexed, prepare for botspam otherwise.
I use: http://nio.infor96.com/archives/369
Depending on what’s on your server, these are probably better but may not work:
http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17
http://www.herod.net/dypm/
Thanks for the links, ‘guv.
I’m currently using the comment moderation thing (which I tried to disable but it is seemingly still in-place) and, er, didn’t really think beyond that point.
I probably would’ve done my own verification thingy; I did own for the forums, which has the major benefit of being a completely unique catch-thingy that no-one has written a bot to bypass. Blast some characters on screen in the form and tell the user to input all numbers only and check to see if they passed when they hit Submit.
If there was some one actually sad enough to modify a bot to take this catch-thingy into account (it’s the only one in the world, ‘member), then just change a single char. Yay.
But I’ll give the plugin(s) you mentioned a go and see how they fare. Because I’m, all-in-all, a lazy twat.