dianaschnuth

Holy fucking shit. I learned myself enough PHP to make the Currently Hearing plugin work.

Almost.

I’m still working on making the archives pages display it properly, as they’re in a different directory. Any ideas, web gurus?

Oh, and something else that’s entirely supercool: HostRocket allows PHP parsing for HTML file extensions. I just had to add a line into my mime-type list in my HostRocket control panel, and whoosh! My stupid archives.htm page is suddenly PHP-ified.

I’m going to go scour the HostRocket FAQ page now and see if I can find a solution to my little PHP nested directory issue.

I’m stoked!

Edit: Yeeeeeah! I just wrote my first Else statement in PHP! And it works! Check it: if you’re on the main index or on the main archive list, then you’re in the public_html directory, and the sidebar displays my Currently Hearing info. If you’re in another directory—say, reading an individual entry or posting a comment—you’re in a different directory that’s not public_html, and you see my driving tunes.

I am such a geek. But I’m OK with that. Next step: PHP-ifying (and possibly MySQL-ifying) the rest of my site so I don’t have to rebuild MT so often…

Check it out—I made a Favorites Icon! If you’re using Firefox, check the address bar. If you’re using IE, check out the bookmark for my site (that I’m sure you have at the top of your list).

If you can’t see it… it looks something like this:  

Heh. I’m so geeked by the smallest things. Go me.

Call me egotistical, but according to D. Keith Robinson, I’d like to think that this new blog of mine will be A Successful Blog. Ideally, anyway.

Incidentally, Keith’s website is where I inadvertently stole my anti-tagline from. Just like I (somewhat less inadvertently) appropriated some of Dooce‘s design elements. Imitation is the highest form of flattery… right?

After all, I believe it was Picasso who said, “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” —I’m not sure what that makes me, then.

Now that my page looks kind of like a “real” blog, I find myself torn between writing more and writing better. Ideally, I’d like to do both. Realistically, I know that if I want to put out high-quality entries like The Elite Members Of The Online Blogosphere (and their groupies know who they are), I would need to sit down and spend quality time on each and every entry. I would basically be writing mini-essays for actual publication, while trying to keep my informal style intact.

It’s harder than it seems. For me, anyway.

On the other hand—shit, no one new is reading this thing. My entire audience consists of Aaron, Amy, Sheryl, Eric, Beth, Dan, and sometimes Amanda, Donna, Kristen, Ellie from SomethingNormal, or a random wanderer following a link from my sig or my old Bosstones page (which, remarkably, still gets hits after at least two years of stagnation).

There’s nobody here to impress. Y’all know me too well. *smirk*

So, once I get used to being all loose and laid-back while typing in a new interface, I’m hoping I’ll be back to my normal blogging self—albeit with a narrower column of text, a different color scheme, and a new backend.

Huh-huh, she said, “back end.” Cool.

P.S. – All of my August 2004 LJ entries are now imported into MT. w00t!

Well, I done it. I bought a domain name and pointed it toward my sparkly new web hosting service. I have also maxxed out credit card #2 with said web hosting, and made an emergency online ‘oh-shit-did-I-just-go-overlimit?’ payment. I am totally done charging shit until I get both cards back to about 50% paid-off. Why do I keep doing this shit? I’m really pissing myself off with this.

But I digress. Web hosting.

As much as I would love to set up MT right now, I’m getting a little tired and am having trouble following the installation instructions. How should I know where I want to install Movable Type? You’re the experts—where would you put it?!
*deep breath*

I’m just really anxious to get my shit going, even though my navigation isn’t quite up to par yet. I think I need to try a couple different templates for horizontal navigation, and maybe set it up so it doesn’t look like crap with a space there, in case I can’t get rid of it. Kind of like my issue with the fixed background—it looks in both IE and Firefox, even though it looks totally different.

I wish I had more quality brain-time in the evenings. I’ve still got a good hour of awakeness, but my brain is done. All I’m good for at this point is some TV, a shower, a chapter or two of Lord of the Rings, and hitting the sack. Blah.