New look etc.
May 24th, 2005 | Published in Blogs | 29 Comments
After a couple of years using Movable Type, I am changing over to WordPress. Despite all the wonderful work thanks to Jay Allen and his MT Blacklist, I was still getting way too much spam. It was becoming a pain to remove it everyday. I am hoping WP does not give me as much stress :)
It’s going to take time for me to get used to the new interface. Updating my blogroll etc. is going to take me some more time, so do bear with me. Any problems that you might encounter with navigation, links etc. — do email me. Meanwhile, let me get back to work…
May 24th, 2005 at 2:53 pm (#)
Change is good. I like this new look and feel. I am also using movable type, but I don’t get spammed that much (manageable), I will stick with this till it get worse.
May 24th, 2005 at 3:11 pm (#)
thanks sam :) yeah. we all need change once in a while, i am sure you’d be the fitting example! hope this one goes better. still have to do a lot of work on the links and navigation.
May 24th, 2005 at 3:52 pm (#)
Hey!!
Good one. I am also moving to WordPress sometime this week :-)
May 24th, 2005 at 4:16 pm (#)
Welcome to WordPress. Your site looks real good compared to the old one. Is spam (comment and trackback) the only reason for the switchover?
May 24th, 2005 at 4:24 pm (#)
Jax: Umm, actually I switched hosts and Madman who is looking after it suggested I move to WP. This is, probably, a case of blind trust :)
May 24th, 2005 at 4:45 pm (#)
Blind trust? In fact, it is a very good move by Madman to suggest WP. I guess he is tired of fixing up MT issues ;-) I wonder when he is switching to WP.
May 24th, 2005 at 4:57 pm (#)
Jax: That comment would make Madman immensely happy :) He was a little tired of all my emails complaining about spam! That is a question Madman will be able to answer!
May 24th, 2005 at 6:18 pm (#)
When am I switching to WordPress? It’s a little more complicated for me, since I use some gimmicky thingamajigs on my blog and also have a separate links blog. So I have to work a little more on it.
http://wp.madmanweb.com is the beta. I am trying to figure out why my links blog window isn’t opening the way it’s supposed to.
May 24th, 2005 at 7:45 pm (#)
Hey Anita — this new look is nice — and ever since I abandoned MT for WP — I have spent more time relaxing and enjoying!
May 24th, 2005 at 9:49 pm (#)
Now this is what I call “change”. For once I wondered if I was on the right website! But its all for the better. Just LOVE the new look and feel. It has that “Classic” look about it. In my opinion, this is great!
May 25th, 2005 at 9:09 am (#)
Anita, Here is my 2cents
The background and the font size/color of the fonts(?) are proving to be a little difficult to the eyes. Can you look into it?
The “banner” of your prior blogsite was more fun than the present one. Again it might be due to the background color.
May 25th, 2005 at 10:41 am (#)
MadMan: It would be wonderful if you could put a 301 redirect on the old MT feeds around these parts :)
Is the WP install running with the caching thingie on? I am being served WP pages way faster by the MadM server than it used to serve me the MT HTML pages.
May 25th, 2005 at 1:28 pm (#)
Codey, behold the power of gzip compression. ;)
And yes, will add the 301 to the RSS. I won’t bother with all the feeds, just the RSS 2.0 one.
(Update: This is the identity problem when you’re logged in as the author of the blog.)
May 25th, 2005 at 1:31 pm (#)
Did AB just turn all geeky on me or was that the voice of the MM?
May 25th, 2005 at 1:40 pm (#)
Just a test to see if the word codey is triggering Spam Karma. It says his comment was blocked because it matched something in the blacklist. — MadMan
May 25th, 2005 at 1:41 pm (#)
I’m guessing the word L U S T in his URL is triggering the blacklist problem for codey — MadMan
May 25th, 2005 at 4:54 pm (#)
I guess it’s never too late =)
May 25th, 2005 at 5:15 pm (#)
I can only wonder what in codelust caused the Spam Karma to run amok ;)
Help! As if one MadMan was not b(m)ad enough, we have two many now!
May 25th, 2005 at 6:26 pm (#)
ladies, gentleman and boys, please stop throwing allegations at each other in my comment space :)
rest of you, thank you for your inputs. we shall duly note that and do something if we feel like it :)
May 26th, 2005 at 1:26 am (#)
Hey, like the new classic look and fonts. Could do with a brighter masthead — liked your earlier one better.
May 26th, 2005 at 2:47 pm (#)
Whats the advantage of using WordPress?? I believe am quite ignorant on advances on this side.…
May 26th, 2005 at 4:38 pm (#)
this looks like stories from a cat who has a blogger :)
actually i liked the old look better.…
but i guess things have to change …
May 26th, 2005 at 11:30 pm (#)
hi Anita!
Welcome to wp ! :) nice change, great color combi. cool theme. kit kit rocks :)
do let us know ur experience with wp!
May 27th, 2005 at 6:16 pm (#)
Thank God!
Now I can tell you how to enable full text feeds.
Go to Options -> Reading -> Syndication Feeds -> Select ‘full text’ radio button as the RSS option.
Also, one more thing. The link text color is very similar to background color. Not enough contrast like the main text has. Did anyone else felt that?
JD
May 28th, 2005 at 8:37 am (#)
thanks sabir! will work on the masthead. and come up with another version soon :0)
sathish: ask madman some day ;)
krisha: LOL! i think it will take some time to get used to the new look, that’s all!
thanks arjun :) will do sometime. still finding my way around right now!
jd: done! but i’ve done the ‘summary’ option for now. will look into link colour :)
May 30th, 2005 at 11:32 pm (#)
hey.. this is cool.. its better than the previous one for sure.. goodluck with the progress of shifting/updating from the old one..
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:51 am (#)
still not getting used to it…
something dark about it… not sinister … but dark
maybe something to do with your night outs…
(batman… was there ever a bat woman… and did cat like the bat ?? )
:)…maybe will get used to it…
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm (#)
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June 7th, 2007 at 4:42 am (#)
Hi, just wanted to say you have a very nice blog, am gonna add it in my website in the blogs section, but i think you should replace your background with a better one.. but this is just my opinion :)
cheeeers.