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RSS feed up to spec

I’ve done a bit of research and updated the Atom feed to be up to spec (Atom 1.0). For those of you reading this post via RSS readers pointed to the old feed located at http://www.nargalzius.com/blog/index.rdf, you should be seeing a painfully obvious disclaimer above this (and every succeeding) entry. I’m leaving the old feed alive for a few more weeks, that (and the announcement header) should give people enough time to update their links to the new feed.

The new feed is located at: [http://www.nargalzius.com/blog/rss.xml][1]

[1]: http://www.nargalzius.com/blog/rss.xml “Right click and copy location to your RSS reader” Read More

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Flickr-ized

I decided to maximize the use of Flickr as an image repository specifically for my blog. While it would be nice to just move the entire gallery to Flickr, I really don’t like the idea of not being able to skin it (and that the gallery’s URL will be outside of my domain). I’m not sure if they have an API released that allows a fully blown gallery to be created outside of their servers, but for now it’s not an option for me.

I finally finished editing each and every entry to fix the broken image links after I moved everything to Flickr. And while modifying the posts, I realized some things that may be useful in case you guys didn’t know it yet. One cool thing about Flickr is that stores its images statically, which allows you to do some legitimate hotlinking to [your] images in the Flickr server from virtually anywhere.

The drawback was that you had to do a decent amount of clicking before you can get to the “static URL” field of the file… at least that’s what I experienced until now. This post is just a discussion on how to access and use those static URLs quickly and efficiently for your hotlinking needs. Read More

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Blog redesign finished!

Version 7.0 is practically done. I just have to put some minor tweaks and apply the template to the rest of the site (music section, etc.) But as far as the blog goes, it’s a done deal.

Although I know RSS is basically a more efficient way of reading blogs, and that those people who are actually savvy enough to be reading multiple CMS(ish) type systems probably just aggregate their content via RSS readers (hence rendering any design of an updated site useless); I still went on ahead with changing the look.

I guess deep down, I still want people to visit the actual pages once in a while and see the layout of the posts in all their glory. After all, RSS readers have their own stylesheets applied to the content, so you get a very uniform look for all the sites you read from – which pretty much strips the sites from their personalities. I designed the new look to be easy on the eyes and (hopefully) a pleasurable experience for visitors and readers alike. Not to mention the fact that there are a bunch of features in the site that can never be replicated on an RSS reader. Read More

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Don’t mind this post (CSS Test)

I just posted so I can put all the “features” of Markdown, Smartypants, and Bo in one entry on the front page so I can style the site properly without having to change the archive pages just yet. You may disregard this post…

However, you may also check out the entry just to see the different element stylings. (e.g. quotes, code, footnotes, etc. etc.)

Let me just warn you though, since I’m doing this on the fly; I’m pretty sure this will keep on changing just in case you catch me editing the CSS (or if it breaks the page now and then). Read More

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Nargalzius v7?

I’ve been fiddling around once again with my source code and have come up with a working alpha of what I think I want v7 to look like. I say alpha because I only just did the blog index page… and even that isn’t complete.

Anyways here’s what it will look like (hopefully)

A bunch of paradigm shifts have taken place – one is, of course, the fact that I’m starting to not care about 800×600 anymore. When surfing on the net, there is so much real-estate on the current websites that looking at my 800×600 friendly site gives me a really ancient feeling.

I don’t know when the new version will be up – I still don’t have a new header/footer for the site (not to mention container graphics to encapsulate the whole thing). Then when I’m done with that, I’m gonna have to redo all the context-sensitive formatting stylesheet for blog postings (like how a quote or code will look like). Then when I’m done with that, I’ll have to start thinking of ways to fit the new, wide layout to the gallery or music page.

Just thinking about them makes me want to give up.