A while ago I screwed up and had to scrap my old posts and then I thought that was kind of a waste so I made a compromise version so that the old posts would still be online somewhere. The reason it was so hard to get the data out was completely my fault. Anyway it just took time to get it all moved over. Not all the links works and not all the videos and images works.
While working through all the old posts some of my favorites are this post of me at the dentist. There are also post like this one where I ran over a cat and then drew a picture. The history of this site now go all the way back to the first posts I ever did.
Fat rock is still what does it for me in my times of need.
Filed under: loose , drupal, mt, photo, site, wp
February 1, 2009 • 9:59 am
Over the last few years I have tried coding my own blog, then WordPress, then Textpattern, then Drupal, then Movable Type. Coding my own was hard. I used WordPress for the longest amount of time but never really thought it was that special. Textpattern was clean and simple but I wanted something full of features. When I moved to Drupal I thought I had really found something amazing. It can do so much, pretty much anything. I loved the theme song and that it had a theme song. I started customizing the install and adding all sorts of modules to make it do everything that I wanted it to do and it was so awesome. The problem I had when I moved from WordPress originally to cleaner or more powerful solutions was that I didn’t feel like posting as much stuff. It might have been harder because it was so powerful or maybe it felt a little bit more grown up so I wasn’t as interested in posting simple stuff. I tried to fix that by moving to Movable Type.
Movable Type is very clean and super fast loading which is nice but I had the same problem that I was less interested in posting stuff. I have looked at the menus and I am not sure what is different but it still feels like posting stuff is just enough out of the way that I wasn’t interested in getting stuff up.
6 years ago from last Tuesday, in the comments for this post WordPress was created and since that is what I had the most success with I thought I would try going back. For all the reasons I switched from WordPress (nothing special, not powerful enough, too slow) those have kind of gone away. It is still a little ordindary, still not the most poweful and still kind of slow but it is and has been improving steadily for the last few yeas. If there is something in another blog publishing tool or CMS that is good enough to switch for, it will end up being in WordPress soon enough anyway. At least that is what I am starting to learn.
As I sit here at Dan’s house working on his laptop and getting his camera ready to go for Santa Fe I just wanted to get back online to my account and finish this post because it is easier and more engaging than the software I had used before. Because this tool (WordPress) is built for blogging that is what it tries to do best. I set up my mobile posting through Flickr like it used to be. I haven’t even thought about just putting one picture up in a long time. It was probably because I got hit in the head so hard.
Filed under: loose , drupal, mt, review, site, site design, wp
So even though I was planning on scrapping the site originally, then compromised and decided to keep the old site but stick it at archive1.elvisripley.com so it could still stick around, I have now fixed it so all my old links work with the site. So if your browser was set to go to elvisripley.com/blog that would work again but you would go to archive1.elvisripley.com/blog and as another example elvisripley.com/blog/2006/06/24/dmc-l1-best-camera-so-far would work in case you were curious what the best camera made so far would be. (as of June 2006)
I just did all those examples so I could also see if it worked and have a quick access to a group of links to click and see if it works tomorrow. It should be pretty stable going forward and as long as I don’t have a /blog or /content everyone should be alright. All of the /blog links were from my WordPress based site and the /content links were from my Drupal based site. It would have made a lot of sense to create an archive when I moved from WordPress to Drupal but I didn’t think about it at the time or maybe it didn’t matter.
The big 3 blogging platforms are WordPress, Drupal and Movable Type. I am now on Movable Type after trying the other two and am pretty impressed. It made a big shift in the last couple of years and has adapted to the way the internet has grown. Those are things Movable Type says and it seems like they are right.
Filed under: loose , drupal, mt, review, site design
This text was on the homepage while there was no other site content.
Last night I came to a site upgrade and that is the best time to rethink the way my site works. Most of the work involved in my site is keeping the old stuff working. I have switched platforms a few times and keeping all the links constant and the content working was starting to be a pain and it also limited me greatly. I have moved everything over to archive1.elvisripley.com and it works fine. I will change the look to keep it more in line with how it used to look. You might notice that is called archive1. That is because now that I have done this it wasn’t so bad so I will probably do this more in the future. Also now that I have archived the whole site and see myself doing it in the future I can plan for that and keep my files and code much cleaner than it had been. I try to keep my email inbox at zero and have gotten pretty good at it but my site was getting sluggish to work with, maybe more like a snail because it had barriers in addition to being slow and gross.
I am evaluating the current state of the internet to decide which direction will be best for the site but also for me to use because that is the most important thing. If it is easy I will be much more interested in using it.
Elvis Ripley (my name is on here twice)
Filed under: loose , drupal, mt, site design
October 10, 2007 • 4:29 pm
I received some complaints about not keeping the site up to date but now that my mom has complained I thought I had better do a catch up power post.
I Ran Over a Cat
Hair, Eye Brows, Beard, Shovel, Cat, Jeans, Shoes
A couple days ago while I was leaving the house I ran over a cat in the driveway. As I was leaving the driveway and pulling onto the street I looked back and saw a cat flopping around. It was pretty violent. Then, it stopped. I knew as I went about my business for the next couple of hours that when I got home I would have to do something with the cat. When i got home it was pretty stinky and so I got the shovel out of the garage and wandered around for a little bit avoiding sight of the head. Eventually I scooped it up and took it next door to an open lot where it would get exposed to lots of sun and varmints. It is still there but I am sure those varmints will be along any moment to clear the whole situation up.
The Dead Cat
I Am Still Learning Drupal
The reason I haven't been posting much is because I have been learning my CMS of choice, Drupal. when I feel like blog time has come around I go about constructing my site style. I have been playing around with some pre-made styles and changing the way comments are handled, changing menu structures, altering layout, stuff like that. I am getting closer but it is pretty tricky to get just what I want. I should just put up something and then re-build it but it is tough to not set it up like you want even though you don't know what you want to put up. Something like that. In terms of management of content and building of new big sites, that is going better and I feel pretty comfortable with that. I have broken the site a few times and had to rebuild the database, which is good to do so you know that you have a solid backup.
Fat rock is probably the only thing that can help right now in my time of trouble with cats and drupal.
Filed under: The Archives , drawing, drupal, photo, Rammstein, video
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