web publishing made easy

Seems pretty easy these days to add an interesting link to my website… Using the WordPress widget that shows most recent updates from my Twitter feed in the sidebar – all I have to do is ‘Re-Tweet’ something and it automatically shows up on the web site !

How could anything be any easier ?

Of course, as I post more updates – the interesting link scrolls down and off the screen. But then so many links lose their relevancy as time passes anyway, so no great loss – right ?
/;^)

another post

Least we forget this site’s humble beginnings, I’ll post a link early on to the original wb5rmg.somenet.net website. With these modern widgets and features, I don’t even have to post a pic of what the site looks like – cause now you can hover the mouse pointer over a link, and get a preview pic – izzat cool or what ?

I will still use the old site for detail pages, and stuff that requires keyboard command-line hacking – all the old stuff is still there… raw html pages – some created with VI editor, others by KompoZer. This is basically just to give the ham-radio stuff it’s own blog forum. My other SomeNet Blog will still be there as well – whether it is a self-installed WordPress, or on wordpress.com – just with less ham-radio stuff.

It will be a bit of a challenge, learning to use the reduced feature set available on this shared server. Most of the tools work the same, and the newer versions have more built-in features – so hopefully I’ll need less of the custom hacks that I used to rely on. I’ll really miss the random-rotation feature I had worked up for the header image tho, but this one combines many elements in an attempt to touch on the many different subjects. I probably will not try to bring over old content, so that I can focus on moving forward. Please check either of the two earlier mentioned SomeNet sites for anything published before May 2009.

Thanks /;^)

A new user

I have added myself as another user, as an administrator, so I can see what the dashboard looks like to an administrator that is not the owner. Interesting  – it shows my posts from both of my wordpress.com sites ..?..

This entry was created by user “somenet” rather than by “wb5rmg” … but this theme does not show the author anyway. Guess I can live without that for now.

OK, so if I find a theme that has enough tweaks to keep me happy – I’ll try one on this shared server. I am so accustomed to having root/shell and the ability to edit anything – this will be an exercise in making do. Presumably themes come and go, and new ones can be tried on like shoes until something fits and feels right.

/;^)

Something new

I felt sad for my wordpress.com blog – I hadn’t given it anything new for some time now. So here it is, still waiting.

I’m still trying to decide if/how to integrate this blog into my current collection of SomeNet web sites. I like that this WordPress host will always have the most current versions, and new features are available without me having to install anything. I’ll try and figure out what I want.

It still isn’t much, but at least it has a new post now.
/;^)