Syntactic Whitespace » blogging http://www.mikedonaghy.org Because semi-colons are for noobs Mon, 31 May 2010 17:22:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Themes … Themes …Themes http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/themes-themes-themes http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/themes-themes-themes#comments Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:18:02 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=56 …I haven’t posted in a week or so …And I haven’t checked the blogofficial wordpress blog …. man the wordpress guys didn’t let me down….they added not one …not two …but THREE new themes ….2 of which I really like …1 being UNsleepAble and the other being K2 there is also a brand new theme I have never even heard of…Gotta check it out’
…if you are not using wordpress I HIGHLY recommend you make the switch :)
Also…with all of these cool new themes …expect my theme to switch regularly

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]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/themes-themes-themes/feed 0 Where I have been http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/where-i-have-been http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/where-i-have-been#comments Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:39:55 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=49 In case Anyone was wondering where I have been…I have moved off of wordpress.com to a drupal powered site at  twol.dreamhosters.com

I’m almost certain I will come back to wordpress once they have more features added to the site (wordpress.com)
:) Happy blogging

–mike

—Mail@leachim6.dreamhosters.com 

]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/where-i-have-been/feed 0 Another feed2podcast hack and my new podcast http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/another-feed2podcast-hack-and-my-new-podcast http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/another-feed2podcast-hack-and-my-new-podcast#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:26:37 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=45 I mentioned Feed2podcast(.com) Before in my Podcast your gmail post

Now I Found another great hack for them…I have made my own blog here into a podcast with my Ad-free feed2podcast account generously donated after the mix-up and I found a cool way to make podcast downloads available

Why not make a widget ? WordPress suports rss widgets so why not put it there so thats what im going to do…to download any of my posts as a podcast just look at the rss feed called Podcast in my sidebar :)

ps.Thanks for the account rob :)

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]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/another-feed2podcast-hack-and-my-new-podcast/feed 0 Stats http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/stats http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/stats#comments Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:03:49 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=43 It may not mean much to anybody except me …but a while ago I made a post that said I had 15 hits in one day…Now I have 50 (or close :) )

it just keeps climbing…And I figure if I have something INTERESTING to say …people will like to read my blog

so here is proof:

(as if you didn’t believe me)

stats-august

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]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/stats/feed 0 Review of the NEW windows live spaces http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/review-of-the-new-windows-live-spaces http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/review-of-the-new-windows-live-spaces#comments Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:02:00 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=41 After my review of Windows Live Writer I thought I would review its companion product … Windows Live Spaces 

I have to say …. Im pretty suprised by Spaces …Its pretty nice… I mean … its no wordpress … but its pretty sweat

For my full review with pictures click to read more

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So anyways…here is the review

This is the main page … it has all the recent posts on spaces

This is the very sleek looking login page…it looks a whole lot cooler than the old msn login :) … if you already have a hotmail account …you already have a space

 

This is the main view of windows live spaces once you have logged in  every single part of your space can be dragged around (ajaxy!!!)

This is the settings page.. it is very simple and does not give much in the way of customization … , but it’s very functional

 

All of spaces menus are neat and drop-down , very simple to use

Here is a picture of the post interface ….it is very neat and has all the tools you need like alignment , links , pictures , fonts ,emoticons , etc …it allows you to preview the entry or save it as a draft before publishing

Right under the post title you will see a box that says catagories … it has about 10 default catagories … but  if you click “add a catagory … a nice  (AJAX!!!) box pops up to enter the name of your new catagory

 

It is also very easy to add links via (ajax!!!) entry boxes

The comment form is good…it looks about the same as most other comment forms with the addition of 4 buttons for :Underline , Italic , Bold , and Hyperlink

….Now …on the topic of Customization ..yes like most blogging software there are themes/styles/templats … AND LOTS OF THEM there are abotu 100 templates …and they are all pretty good …

there are also many “modules” to add to spaces …these are like plugins/extensions there are a lot of them

 

also another nice thing about spaces is that you can change the layout of any of the themes  on the fly

 

spaces also has the cool feature of rss widgets (Like wordpress) so you can add as many rss feeds as you want that will appear in your sidebars (also like wordpress) I have My Digg feed and my WordPress.com feed

One other thing I should mention is that there is no direct template custumization … now editing templates at all … no html code in sight …which is probably ok for about 80% of people ….I Give spaces an 8/10 ….it is a nice upgrade from msn spaces …but it lacks some features that would make it even better like template editing

Bottom Line:

Spaces is a great app with lots of potential …it has social networking features and a nice ajax interface

Who Needs it:

People who want a blog NOW and like the social networking features and don’t mind the fact that you can’t customize the templates …also for less sophisticated users

]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/review-of-the-new-windows-live-spaces/feed 0 Introducing …Windows Live Writer http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/introducing-windows-live-writer http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/introducing-windows-live-writer#comments Sun, 20 Aug 2006 01:31:20 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=40 I just foind this really cool app called Windows Live Writer  I have to say …for everything microsoft has done…Maybe …Just maybe…they got something right… this thing is nice…It lets you do anything that the web interface does ….Except easier it even does catagories, tags , comments (enable/disable) , trackbacks , pings , timestamps , blockquotes ..everything …And for ONCE …just ONCE they are NOT forcing you to use there service …msn spaces ….Im using it right now for wordpress…and also …it is VERY easy …it took me about 30 seconds to startup (and thats with downloading posts too) All it needed was my blog address and user/pass

Im writing this post with it now …Here are some pictures :

 

 

You can even insert maps from  Windows Live Maps

(pictured –> )

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall this is a pretty neat piece of software…even if microsoft made it…It is very smooth and integrates well  , even with non-microsoft products (*gasp*) it is even STANDARDS COMPLIANT (*double gasp!!!*)

 

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]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/introducing-windows-live-writer/feed 2 wordpress vid tip #1 –installing wordpress locally http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/wordpress-vid-tip-1-installing-wordpress-locally http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/wordpress-vid-tip-1-installing-wordpress-locally#comments Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:56:59 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=33 How to install wordpress on a local server , if you have any questions please do not hesitate to post them in the comments or email me at leachim6@gmail.com
I appologize for the audio quality It will be much better next time:

[youtube=watch?v=OD4nh5A5up4]

watch online here or download the mp4/h.254 .mov here
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Xampp

WordPress

phpmyadmin

Apache     php      mysql

– Software used:

Firefox 7-zip Camstudio

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]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/wordpress-vid-tip-1-installing-wordpress-locally/feed 0 I cannot belive the traffic im getting http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/i-cannot-belive-the-traffic-im-getting http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/i-cannot-belive-the-traffic-im-getting#comments Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:48:07 +0000 Mike http://miked.dyndns.org/~miked/?p=30 Since I started being more active on my blog and using technorati tags My traffic has <sarcasm>SKYROCKETED</sarcasm> hah ok maybe that is a LITTLE exageration but !! observe the spike since I postet the lorem ipsum post
View the chart : Stats

Ok so it went from 2 pageviews a day to 11 right…so No big deal …but its a start right :) Plus …I don’t really care if anyone likes what I write

I love to write and thats all that matters right ? :)

Ill post stats again whne I get 20 pageviews !! haha

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]]> http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/i-cannot-belive-the-traffic-im-getting/feed 0 Comparison of WordPress.com and Blogger.com http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/comparison-of-wordpresscom-and-bloggercom http://www.mikedonaghy.org/post/comparison-of-wordpresscom-and-bloggercom#comments Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:06:50 +0000 Mike http://localhost/~miked/?p=21 Many people [that I know] are confused about the differences between wordpress and blogger so I made a quick chart to show the major differences… although I will let you come to the conclusion of which service is better ^_^

here is the chart:(click to view a larger version)
wp-vs-blgr

Note: The downloadable version of wordpress Does not have the same restrictions

This comparison the for the WordPress.com Hosted version only

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