January 22nd, 2010 | 
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Another year, another go at making the website more functional and more appealing to you, the reader.
This means a new hosting service; a dedicated lifelone URL; a switch to WordPress self hosting; and trying out new themes. This one is attractive, for sure, but it doesn’t handle drop down menus. It does have this lovely featured post bar at the top though. The theme is called Nofelia.
We’ll see.
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Looking nice – saving to delicious works a treat!
Super. I need to tweak things considerably. I have worked out how to run simultaneous blogs on a single hosting space, I just have to link them together now….
Site 3.0 looks good so far, once the content is up it will be even better – why the multiple blogs though? Is it related to getting everyone blogging in the same place?
Basically, I want to put up case of the week, and the podcast on to DC3.0, and a blog format works the nicest for that. But that means having a site with 3 separate blogs in it – the blog; case of the week; the podcast. I can now host three instances of wordpress in three different folders in the public folder, with 3 different MySQL databases. The trick now is to make them all look the same so when you, dear user, flicks between them, it all looks like one seamless site! Job done.
Or something. Uploading by FTP, writing bits of CSS, plugins, PHP, it’s all new to me. I used to write webpages in HTML 3.0 back in 1996….
Hmm, I’m still not convinced that it’s the easiest way to do it… but it looks good! (Would a proper CMS like drupal/joomla/tikiwiki not be easier to maintain in the long run?)
Oh, ease has nothing to do with it! I’m just simple, and try to stick to what I know. Lifeinthefastlane.com manage their site with nested blogs, and it works very nicely. I’m basically just copying them
Anyway – did Natalie tell you that she’s persuaded the medical school to fund the hosting for PRN on site? Genius. She told me *just* after I shelled out £100 for 3 years worth of hosting for dundeechest with supergreen hosting. Typical. But at least it’s mine.
Fair enough! WordPress is well supported too.
On PRN: I applied for a Sky account on the uni server, not heard back (from ICS) – well, some sort of autoreply thing. It’s great to have people like Natalie on our side!
Is supergreen some sort of conglomerate (http://who.is/dns/dundeechest.com/), or did you buy the domain elsewhere?
It’s all change to Mistique now, and all the better for it, I think.
Many changes already, including nested blogs, and some nippy redirection. Smoke and Mirrors, boys and girls.
Any chance of a master RSS feed, or at least one for comments? I prefer if possible to only check RSS, not trawl through the site looking for new stuff 🙂
Thanks!
Ack. I’ll have to look into getting a feedburner account sorted out. Give me a bit of time to get it sorted.
Wait! Google to the rescue:
Basically, it’s http://www.dundeechest.com/blog/wordpress/?feed=comments-rss2 – hope that helps!
From http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/03/09/what-is-my-wordpress-feed-url/
I’ve made a feedburner feed for everything RSS on the site:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DundeeChest
Try that
Hmm, the feedburner URL only does blog posts? “My” DC URL does (did? not updating now – have you changed something in WP?) comments…
Right. I’ve made the main blog RSS feeds feedburner feeds so I can keep a log of the stats. Unfortunately I don’t seem to be able to combine the two RSS feeds into one feed via Feedburner, which is irritating. Yahoo Pipes allows me to combine them, but not in time and date order. But FeedMingle DOES put them in date and time order, but it isn’t very content rich, ie no pictures.
But I have re-written the script to get the RSS button at the top to link to the mashup, rather than the individual blog feeds.
Arrrghhh.