I’ve transfered my RSS feeding duties over to FeedBurner for all the cool things that feed burner offers. The old feed will still work fine. But if you’re currently subscribed to the old feed, unsubscribing and subscribing to the new FeedBurner URL would be peachy. Thanks.
This past week I’ve been on vacation spending quality time with the family. In the downtime between the quality time, I’ve been able to work on finishing up the small redesign I’ve been working on. Nothing too drastic, but it’s something I’m much happier with. And it’s also a design I’ll be refining as time goes on.
In addition to the new look and feel, I’ve also redone the underlying markup. Posts are now marked up in the hAtom microformat and other microformats such as hCards are sprinkled throughout. At the top of the page is my latest Twitter post which could contain any random thought that passes through my head.
I’m sure there may be small visual bugs here and there (or something I’ve just forgotten), but if you experience and issues or see anything glaringly wrong, let me know.
I’ve made a couple additions to the site this past weekend. The first being an about page. As much as a hate writing about myself, it was necessary. The second being the contact page. I wanted to highlight something in regards to the contact page.
In past attempts to create my site in Wordpress, everything would go great until I got to a need for a form. I know a bit of PHP, but I don’t have the gusto to write a Wordpress plugin or the time to try and wrangle a regular PHP form into Wordpress’ world. With the abundance of Wordpress plugins out there, I’ve never been able to find a decent contact form plugin. They were either too simple and riddled with “known issues” or they were far too complex. Requiring everything just short of a thumbprint authentication to send the form. But finally, I’ve found the one I was looking for. Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress.
The beauty of this plugin is in it’s customization. All the other plugins I looked at pretty much forced you into what that developer felt should be on a contact form. This one allows you define which fields you want and even the level of verification you want on each. It also has the random character generator to fend off spam. But if you don’t want to, you don’t have to use it. I’ve setup a pretty basic form on my contact page, but from the options available, more tweaking will ensue.
I just wanted to give a tip of the hat to Dagon Design for their excellent Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress. I just wish I’d found it sooner.