Post #318,793
12/18/09 1:20:32 PM
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About to switch to new host, anyone got time to poke it?
Current blog is at http://blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com
New one is at http://cooklikeyourgrandmother.com/blog
If you've got time, take a look and let me know if there's anything wonky with the new layout. I'm still working on getting ad blocks put in, and WordPress search seems to be broken-ish so I don't have search enabled yet.
If you've worked with WordPress and Coral CDN before, have you heard anything about bad links in widget content? For some reason any URLs in widgets have double slashes (as in "http://") turned into single slashes.
I've got a 301 redirect set up to push existing links to the new site. But of course Blogger and Wordpress use different heuristics to build URLs, so I'm going through doing manual fixes. --
Drew
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Post #318,797
12/18/09 2:19:06 PM
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Poked it a little.
It requires the browser window to be just a touch wider, but otherwise they look pretty much the same.
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Post #318,798
12/18/09 2:19:54 PM
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What browser/OS?
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Drew
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Post #318,801
12/18/09 2:28:10 PM
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Firefox 2.0.0.12 on OS/2
Not using a later version because they haven't got printing to work yet on OS/2 and I print a lot from Web pages.
The difference in window size required is about 1 inch. Also the behavior is somewhat different.
Moving in the right edge on the old site, you cut into the right column about 1/4 inch and get a slider bar before it moves the right column down to under the left column.
Moving in the right edge on the new site, the right column is moved down before you cut into it and get a slider bar.
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Post #318,811
12/18/09 3:52:19 PM
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Looks purty on Safari/OS X
No slide-bar needed on horiz here (for Ex.)
All links tried seem copacetic; not an exhaustive poking..
(Can't imagine how you managed to clean up from the ISP-from-Gomorra, reinvent all the scripts, salvage all the content, piece-by-piece ... and still have time to grease up a bunch of Sourdough bread pans and, presumably: brush teeth, put out the cat ... and other distractions. Kudos on juggling All That er, Successfully!)
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Post #318,814
12/18/09 4:52:34 PM
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Easy: I didn't
I've been posting mostly 15-20 times per month, except when I was away on vacation in August. I've got 11 for November, and 3 so far in December.
November took a shit when the previous host moved me to their new datacenter, and I spent several full-time days' worth of my life trying to get that corrected. Plus there was setting up the newsletter/mailing list system.
Finally I just decided, "Fuck it, I'm moving."
The new host has been worlds better. The configuration is sane -- meaning it's exactly the same as every other Linux host has been for the last several years. The support people actually know what they're talking about. They're stricter on the email controls, which is good because it means they're fighting spam, but it's inconvenient for me since their policy is to do it slightly different from how I do it.
This has forced me to get my head back into code in a way it hasn't been for several years. I'm getting reacquainted with Vi (that's good, kiss my ass Scott :-P ) and I just rediscovered how much faster I am on some DB tasks from the command line than from a GUI. I'm sure I'm still writing PHP4 in PHP5, but I can live with that for now.
I'm about 10% of the way into a complete rewrite of the autoresponder. All the other good options require monthly fees, which at my volume would be ~$35/mo. And I'd have to rebuild my integration with a new system anyway. If you know anyone who will be wanting a system in the next month or two, let me know. I plan on doing sales/installations of it once I'm done.
Salvaging the content was helped enormously by the fact that I picked a layout I could live with over a year ago and deviated from it as little as possible. It only took a set of 8 RegExes run on each post to strip the Blogspot-isms and make it Wordpress-friendly.
Comments were another matter. Google had a bug in their system that dozens of people were reporting, as it was breaking a bunch of popular widgets. I finally got everything stuffed into the database, but by then there were duplicates all over the place, as well as orphan comments attached to the wrong posts, or no post.
Those were a matter of looking at every single post and comparing post counts to the old system; and where they don't match, comparing individual comments: 442 posts (plus revisions), 5,599 comments. Tedious? Why yes, thank you for asking.
The two pieces I have left that I know aren't done are:
1) I don't have any ads on the site yet. I haven't been making a ton from them, so I'm not in a hurry.
2) Blogspot and WordPress build URLs from titles differently. There are still some that won't redirect properly. I've got about a half-dozen specific re-writes, and about that many more that I set the URL manually in WP to match the old one.
3) (Dammit, three things not done.) I haven't tested the Google Analytics code. On the old system, I had it set up to segregate by subdomain. The new system has everything on the main domain, so I don't know how that's going to break yet.
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Drew
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Post #318,867
12/20/09 1:39:37 AM
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PHP stuffs.
Don't worry about "writing PHP 4 code in PHP 5". For most people, whatever you're doing: It Just Works. You'd only notice problems if you were doing intense things with objects, or pushing the edges of the language - which 99.9% of people do not. It's true that expensive things like copying strings and objects are much quicker in v5, but it's still good to avoid them.
Wade.
Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
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Post #318,824
12/18/09 9:27:51 PM
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A few things on a quick look around.
WinXP on a laptop with 1680x1050 screen. FF 3.5.6. with the browser about 3/4 of the screen width. Default Arial font size 14, but pages can override.
On http://cooklikeyourgrandmother.com/blog/ looks good and the e-mail signup box seems to fade out properly (as we discussed a few weeks ago).
If I go to the About tab, it seems to wait a long time (a few seconds) before sending the request for the page. Similarly on hitting the Blog tab from the About page.
If I scroll down on the About page, the "F" in "Follow this blog" is missing or chopped off with no horizontal scroll bar. The text below that is also chopped off on the left. If I compare it to your existing page, it looks like that stuff is supposed to be in a Right column rather than on the Left.
If I go to the Home tab, it looks fine, but there are no About or Blog tabs visible.
I assume the Home and About tabs are still a work in progress. :-)
HTH a little. You've got a great site and it's well presented. I admire your ability to pull it together given all the obstacles you've had to put up with!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #318,825
12/18/09 9:43:48 PM
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I noticed that on the "About" page
And I'll be damned if I can figure out what's doing it. I know why those columns move left, and I'm not too worried about it. But for some reason several DOM boxes are overlapping that shouldn't be, and the contents of some of the boxes are set about 15px to the left of their containers.
By the way, Firebug is my favorite new dev tool. I don't know how I ever did CSS without it. And I definitely couldn't have developed against a WordPress framework without it. But even with Firebug, I can't find what's doing the odd left-shift magic.
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Drew
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Post #318,826
12/18/09 10:00:05 PM
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I've got FireBug loaded, but haven't even played with it
Unfortunately, most HTML is black magic to me.
I hope it's not too tough to diagnose. Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #318,861
12/19/09 9:34:24 PM
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Is it an "aside" issue?
I know almost nothing about this stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was irrelevant, but I came across this and thought I'd pass it along in case it helps:
http://html5doctor.com/aside-revisited/
[...]
Examples of aside in two different contexts
With the new definition of aside, itÂs crucial to remain aware of its context. When used within an article element, the contents should be specifically related to that article (e.g., a glossary). When used outside of an article element, the contents should be related to the site (e.g., a blogroll, groups of additional navigation, and even advertising if that content is related to the page).
The two uses of aside can be best illustrated with an example:
[...]
I don't see an "article" element on the About page. Dunno if the parser is getting confused or something... :-/
HTH a little.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #318,887
12/20/09 12:12:14 PM
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Nope ... but I've got it fixed now
It's the way various div floats interacted with each other. I need to nest a non-floating div inside a floating-div. I've still got some things not lining up exactly right, but you need to hold a ruler up to the screen to notice it. (I don't need to hold a ruler up to the screen, but I'm weird like that.)
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Drew
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Post #318,895
12/20/09 1:31:19 PM
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Looks good.
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Post #318,829
12/19/09 4:36:05 AM
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Just pulled the trigger
I haven't figured out the layout issue on the "About" page, but I'll worry about that tomorrow. Must sleep.
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Drew
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