TCH-Tim

I started with LiveJournal which is junk. Then I switched to Blogger which isn't junk, but it's not very powerful and was often down, making updates difficult. Then I switched to Moveable Type which I found very easy to install, customize and use. Although I wasn't unhappy with MT I switched to WordPress just for kicks, and I definitely like it better. Setup is easier (seriously less than five minutes for the basic install, but customizing can be a lifelong process), lots of good plugins, it's dynamic which means updates and changes are faster (I know MT has a dynamic option, but setup is not as easy), it's all free, and it uses PHP which is a little easier for me to screw with than MT's Perl. If you get into trouble with whatever choice you make, there's a boatload of knowledge available in the forums here.

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date("d") will put a leading '0' on your single digit dates, so today would be 01, not 1. Your array currently looks like this: >$todaysFile = Array ( // Up to 31 '1' => 'file1.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '2' => 'file2.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '3' => 'file3.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '4' => 'file4.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '5' => 'file5.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '6' => 'file6.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '7' => 'file7.txt' , // Name of or Path to file ); Try this: >$todaysFile = Array ( // Up to 31 '01' => 'file1.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '02' => 'file2.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '03' => 'file3.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '04' => 'file4.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '05' => 'file5.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '06' => 'file6.txt' , // Name of or Path to file '07' => 'file7.txt' , // Name of or Path to file ); Or to get the day of the month without the leading 0, use date("j"). More here on PHP date functions.

Nice. Thanks for the tip.

You could try using px instead of percentages on your widths. Should also consider using CSS instead of tables on a straightforward layout like this.

Googlbot swung by today and my ads changed. Guess patience is key.

How does Google crawl WordPress' dynamic content so as to figure out what kind of ads to place? I seem to be stuck on some ads for Pope books. A post on the Pope was one of the last static MT posts I made just before moving to WP. Is Google not googling my site?

Looks fine to me. Firefox v1.0.1.

Best. Room. Ever.

Why not put the ads in some of that abundant and unused sidebar space, instead of hoping that a visitor will scroll alllll the way down to the bottom of the page to click on the ad? If you have repeat visitors, they aren't going to scroll past posts that they have already read, so they will never see the ads. Even if it's my first time visiting the site, the odds of me hitting the bottom of your site without getting sidetracked are very small.

Nice bike Mike. You race or is it just for fun?

Probably TCH-Bruce. If not the master, he's good anyway.

I have experience installing Ip-based surveillance cameras, but that's a slightly different application than you have here and a little expensive. I've seen the Axis stuff around and it seems nice enough, but I've never actually played around with them so I can't give you any real-world advice. Sorry.

Cheese

Cycling, kayaking, messing with my website, hiking, deep-frying stuff, running, reading, snorkeling, and a lot of laying around. Pretty much anything to not work.

That, sir, is exactly what I was looking for and took maybe five minutes to do. Google is telling me it works. Thanks much. -Tim

The Terraserver stuff is pretty old. What my neighborhood looked like in June 1994, and what it looks like a little more recently. A lot happens in a Vegas Decade. Note: By the way, that's not my address. It's a school in the general vicinity. So don't come looking for me there.

That's kind of my feeling. I would prefer that the site look the way I designed it. If you would like to resize afterwards, fine. A majority of my visitors (albeit a slim majority) use Firefox, so they can resize it. Guess it's that constant struggle between design and accessibility. It would be so much easier if everybody used Firefox on a 1024x768 screen with every font ever invented installed.

It would be more interesting if it displayed the results in each panel automatically instead of just opening Yahoo and Google and having me type the query again.

I recently moved from Moveable Type to WordPress, mostly just because I wanted to try it out, and everything went very smooth. Didn't take very long at all to install WP and export/import all my MT entries. The problem I just realized today is that Google and others have indexed many of my old MT posts and I would like them to continue pointing people my way. If I delete the posts, people will get a 404 error. If I leave the posts, people will comment on the MT post instead of the WP mirror (which is what happened this morning), and I'll have two commenting systems going. (I could occasionally export/import the MT stuff into WP as a temporary workaround, but that's kind of silly.) So the question, what to do with my 6 months worth of MT posts? Is there something that can index all my old MT URLs and automatically redirect people to the corresponding WP entry? -Tim

This is basically the conclusion I've come to over the course of the day. Just wondering if it's worth switching everything over or what. Guess if my only consideration is the usability for IE users, well too bad for them. I'll get around to it eventually. Thanks for the explanations.

Which one is better for defining font sizes, em or px, and why?

You could get an editor such as Dreamweaver or CuteSITE Builder. Or learn to write HTML.

Looking at a post of mine from several hours ago, I see "somebody" is going through editing the forums, inserting this "*Quiznos Subs!*" thing. Hmmmm....

I'm in Las Vegas. At this point my money's on the *Quiznos Subs!* theory.