ICTlogy

That was really FUN!

Following Matt’s instructions on how to create a favicon I created my own, say, ICTlogy favicon.

And again: that was really FUN! :))

It’s clear I have to spend more time on this.

Updating to new features

Last week I tried to enhance the blog with the new features at the “bleeding edge” development of WordPress. It surely was my fault, but after downloading the required files at the CVS repository, I really had a deep disappointment as nothing worked as expected. Worst thing of all was not being able to post anything (Calling out… post was written directly on MySql phpMyAdmin).

After tracking back all errors and, actually, not finding the bug, I had to reinstall my backuped version of the site – just navigation files, not database.

Next time I’ll pay more attention on what I do and not do it all at once but step by step. Promised.

New link organization

Yesterday I replaced get_links() function by get_links_list() function. I think that was a good thing: it will allow having plenty of links not in a pile but in categories, automatically sorted, alt-tag-commented and out-of-the-html-editing-loop-updated.

Having a good selection of links is not good but a must: it will help me focus on the subjects I’m supposed to be interested in and, over all, show the reader my main sources for information and further readings I find of personal/professional interest. Links and my own content do have to walk hand in hand and be considered as a whole. All in all: I want to add value, that simple, even if this value means only putting some order to my personal chaos ;)

By the way, struggling with wp-layout.css was not that simple :D

PS: hope this time I don’t have to come back for ortography orthography errors and so. Thanks Chess for linguistic surveillance: MS Word corrector did great job too ;)

PS2: I’ll keep my more or less personal stuff under newly created Z-files link category :)

I know it might be of no importance to noone, but as everything requires some effort, it is my commitment to track down all the steps I take in the setting up of the blog. If you ever happen to read this and find it of any value, I’ll consider me well payed back :)

I’ve customized the navigation bar of the admin layout so I can, apart of all the options set by default, access my webmail, my hosting admin shell and my hosting client account intranet. Too many sites to remember, don’t you agree? ;)

The file you have to edit is \wp-admin\b2menutop.txt (yo can see mine – all accesses protected with user/password, no wonder). The path I’ve had to follow to find it has been quite obscure, as there are three or four files embedded one into another until you reach the last (first?) one that matters.

Hope it helped.

Today I ended with all the migration tasks:

• Copying post registers
• Copying comment registers
• Redirecting old site to new one
• Post this post ;)

Now, the time of real work is nigh…

I finally set my mind and I will shift to a payment hosting service.

As I said before it was important to me not to depend on a random domain, with ads, pop-ups and so on and weird and not-site-related e-mail accounts.

The quest for the provider has been a real oddissey: too many parameters to take in consideration.

It looked quite clear that I only wanted one provider, i.e. domain management and hosting at the same place. IEspana.es loosed their train as they did not accept payment through credit card. So sorry for them: they were the first ones I saw and was decided to deal with them so I could end the whole thing as soon as possible.

As I wanted to do all the way on-line, I started again, this time in a deeper scope, running a little database I built in order to ease the comparison between all offers I could found regarding the maximum parameters possible.

Yesterday I contracted Server-Spain, Server-United Spain’s division. Looks nice. Enough disk room, good transference quota and all services needed concerning domain asministration and site management. Notice their hotline service through chat: I did appreciate the kind attention I got yesterday afteernoon by user “Sales” :)

I guess I’d be migrating all the stuff in ictlogy.webcindario.com to the new server and domain (www.ictlogy.net) as soon as everything is mirrored and I have a couple of minutes to sit on my desktop.

Thanks again to César Córcoles whose patiente is more than over due. Hugs! :)

Now I’m into the customization of the site. I don’t know whether I should do this now or wait till I know if I’ll migrate to the pro hosting service.

Anyway, font size and family was a must so far: first paragraph always showed bigger than the rest and didn’t like “Lucida” at all.

Change of CSS and that’s all.
HINT: DO edit <p> and <body> tags in the CSS file. Defaults are not, IMHO, correctly defined and first paragraph fonts will always be 10% bigger than the following ones (actually, following ones will be 10% smaller – not exactly the same)