I’ve been programming all afternoon and I came up with this.
Before you say ‘So? What’s different?’, I’ll answer. My blog display is now programmed in PHP. What’s that mean to the loyal justinrussell.com viewer? Next to absolutely nothing. However, it allows me to add things even more easily, and there are a couple new features. The biggest is the categories display on the main page (it’s the last box in the right column). Click on any category name to see just entries of that type. You can also now choose the number of entries you want to display at a time; I’ll be adding a display changer box sometime soon, I think.
Where’d the sections go?
Well, I figure that a lot of the information that used to be in the sections in the right column are now just put in the blog. This is one of the reasons for the categories; you can now just display all of one type – Exploring Maine, for instance – to see information that would’ve been put into its own section before. Don’t worry, I didn’t erase the info I had up here before. A lot of it was just getting old.
I want to see whatever again.
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What’s so great about PHP?
Without getting into a big technical description, it allows me to bring up a page in a WYSIWYG editor like GoLive and program HTML around PHP instead of having to try to wing it with CGI. Trust me, it’s just easier.
What’s going to happen in the future?
You’ll have to wait and see. Stay tuned this week for the special Halloween edition.
Please e-mail me or post a comment wiith any bugs you find or any suggestions. I’m sure it won’t be a flawless transition; I’m not that good of a programmer (I still wrote all of the blog display and update code from scratch, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few bugs).