Bye-bye the old ?p=123, hello easy to see, read, and understand, very much simplistic post-name. I took a leap into updating WordPress, again, thanks to a great little plug-in (Dean’s Permalink Migration plug-in, and it seems to be working great) to prevent bad 404 errors on previous posts, I have went for a more search engine friendly permalink structure.
I have worked on a new design of a wolf howling at the moon. Not the greatest, I’m still getting used to digital art. I’m really thinking it’ll be best for me to hand draw, scan, and work over top that or something. I don’t know. Uploaded the file anyway, and created a shirt based on it, and a small print.
I’ve been tinkering with my WordPress installation every now and then, mainly with minimizing spam comments. Several are difficult to figure as spam, while most others were downright obvious. I hate moderating them, but I also hate known spam bots “commenting” with huge amounts of text in the comment field. So, until I look at an comments in the spam queue in order to delete it, at least now, there won’t be any comments for 200 characters. Thanks to Greg’s Comment Length Limiter Plugin for WordPress. I’m gonna try it out for a while, but still looking to edit the comment form itself, maybe removing the URL field if I see it as too much of a problem. (Most comments seem to be made to just promote their own site, even if there is a legitimate comment that actually relates to the post, if that makes any sense). I really don’t want to enable an Captcha plugins, that will be a last resort.
I just spent about two hours or so joining a few fanlistings (I have a long list of those I’m in process of joining, mostly all TV related, of course), while looking for some more to join later. I have this weird system set up, where I have, in my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar, a folder for Fanlistings Joined, then a Need Join folder. Each one is separated into TV, Movie, Music, Etc, and Fanlistings Joined as the Pending folder (recently joined but not yet approved), and Need Join has the Ready to Join (which I will work on maybe next week, or if I get approved of about 4-5 more soon, I can quickly join and add the buttons to my site).
Of course, my site itself (www.awesomely-aloof.net), has the Joined listings pages separated into very simple categories (I don’t feel like separating them anymore with specifics), so they are just either TV, Movies, Music, Actors/Actresses, or Misc, although, I feel like I’m gonna have to split up the TV one, ’cause it’s getting mighty large. Then the home page has the little icons on the side, which I don’t want to take up the whole thing, but I don’t want to take off any I haven’t been approved of yet, ’cause having them right on the front makes it easier to find initially. I wish I just took the time to set up Enthusiast or something, but that’s more of a whole Collective kind of thing, and right now I only own two fanlistings (one for the band Tantric, the other for the song ‘Until the End’ by Breaking Benjamin, and I use BellaBuffs for those (BTW, feel free to join if you like, you don’t need a website, just an email)), for the most part, I just have an addiction to joining listings (I don’t know why, I just do).
Anyway, I’m keeping this post short, since it’s more of a rambling, and I am tired, ’cause a useful PHP script like Enthusiast would probably make the whole joining easier (and keep up with the codes too, I think, or maybe the CodeSort would have to be added?). I don’t know, don’t care.
So here’s to fanlistings, keeping up with people’s love of whatever is out there.
I’ve been wanting to utilize one of those Print-on-Demand stores (you know Zazzle, Cafepress, etc). I decided to just take a swing at it and made a quick Zazzle account and made two products that use an image I quickly made when just playing around with shapes and layers in Photoshop. I thought it looked semi-cool and could see it as a neat little item, such as a mug or mousepad.
Here is the link to go right to my Gallery page, or just check them out with the little sidebar item I added to this blog. http://www.zazzle.com/awesomelyaloof
I finished, yep, I sure did. I went with a black and red theme, a little more simpler, and maybe, just maybe, I little cleaner lookin as well. Less graphic oriented, mainly because I’m too lazy to spend too much time on Photoshop and stuff. But, it’s redesigned. There were many pages, however, I cut out, mainly the TV show pages, ’cause I don’t really feel the need to have them around anyway. I even filled in time to update my Supernatural site (well, the episodes at least, getting around to VERY brief episode summaries for Season 2, listing Season 3, and so far, Season 4. There is no poll, no more, b/c it’s bad enough I’m still using Bravenet’s counter (they are a great first time webmaster-type service, but I’ve outgrown them). Also, still using them for the long gone need for guestbooks (don’t think anyone really cares for those anymore, but it’s there anyway), and the VoteCaster is still around, though, I think I’ll be doing away with that as well.
All in all, after two years, it was time for a change. So, enjoy, Awesomely-Aloof 2.0.
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