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November 10, 2005
Website Changes
02:55 AM
I had the luxury this week, to fix up some small issues with the website. If you care to know, here’s a briefing:
Dirfication and Dashification
All archives files are now in Smart URLs. Smart URLs aims to use real text to name blog entry files, replace possible spaces into underscores, and convert all text approrpriately to lower case. As I found out through my geek research this process in the web world is known as to dirify.
Words these days are getting pretty ridiculous.
I’m not sure what’s the etymology of “dirify.” I’m assuming it’s either from the word “directory” or “dirty.” Maybe someone out there knows.
I’ve encountered dirifying from my years of working with Movable Type, but I just never did it because I personally don’t like underscore URLs. Well, I don’t like underscore anything, and I prefer to use dashes to signify spaces.
I managed to find a MT Dirifyplus plugin, and now I’m good to go. I’d like to call it “dashify.”
You heard it here first folks. Dashify.
No more layer gaps
I noticed quite a long time ago that my page has been loading with this irritating gap in Firefox and Safari browsers between the top banner and the body elements, as well as the body elements and the footer. Surprisingly enough, it was fine in Internet Explorer all this time. Anyways, it was pissing the hell out of me, and now it’s finally fixed.
Wordpress Vs. Movable Type
I was feeling quite ambitious tonight, and I installed Wordpress into the webpage. But after a quite a bit of work on it, I found myself still attached to Movable Type. I’m not sure if it is because I’m just not enjoying having to familiarize new applications, but I find that the layout customizations are really annoyingly difficult.
I think Wordpress is better for pre-formatted layouts, and not for implementing layouts from scratch. If you’re interested in how far I got, feel free to take a peek before I clear it.
At the same time, Wordpress is kicks MT ass when it comes to implementing Dynamic Templates. I still can’t seem to understand the process for to get it working. Though I suppose Static Templates aren’t necessarily that bad.
Banner links to Homepage
This is intuitive is it not? Well, not precisely, since I just got that link running.
Comment Archives links to Entries
Self explanatory. It’s easier to reference to the actual entry where the comment was made.
Filed under Tech, published In Waterloo
4 Comments
November 10, 2005 08:55 AM
Wordpress has a horrible template system. You should use Textpattern. It's dynamic and the templates are much more straightforward. I'd say. But maybe i've been using it a long time and am biased.
I think dirify has its roots in the word directory, as you said.
November 10, 2005 01:01 PM
According to GoogleGuy, Google prefers dashes over underscores when it comes to URLs.
November 12, 2005 02:49 PM
Hey man... just to let you know, in Firefox the comments seem to overlap with everything else at the top of the page.
Anyways, I use Wordpress myself.. and the template system isn't so bad!! The default Kubrick template is quite capable, the only thing that really needs to be changed is the CSS code... anything could be done in CSS :)
http://www.csszengarden.com is a pretty cool site demonstrating 'the zen of CSS'.
November 13, 2005 02:52 AM
Thanks Steven,
I was tampering with the stylesheet, and forgot all about it. Thanks for the heads up. Wordpress seems to have a lot of great pre-made templates that could easily be implemented, but it's so frustrating having to go through all the code for each of the layouts.
I guess it would've been the same if was learning MT for the first time, but I guess I just don't have the same amount of patience I once had :P