You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
Well that was easy. Really. And now it uses MarkDown too. It seems that not all the information on either of the Internets is entirely up to date.
Turning on MarkDown was simplicity itself.
Now I need to figure out how to handle the three sections that comprise newburyportion.com: journal, nerd, and photography.
And design a non-sucky template.
I’m [...]
I need a better content management system than Movable Type. I’ve written about this before (Movable Type Feels Stagnant and What’s Wrong With Movable Type).
I downloaded a copy of TextPattern (developed by the guys from TextDrive — my hosting company. But TextPattern doesn’t seem to be able to handle the permanent URLs I’ve been using [...]
Well, it looks like Google has finally started feeding data into Analytics.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to support Safari.
That’s annoying. I suppose I’ll fire up Firefox and see how newburyportion.com is doing.
Update: As of this morning (17 Nov), I can’t get into Google Analytics using Firefox. The moment after I log in, I get redirected to [...]
Wow! Google just doesn’t rest. I just noticed on Micro Persuasion that Google is offering a free Web analytics package. The site seems to be a bit slow at the moment (surprise!) but I’m willing to give it a whirl here on newburyportion.com.
I’ve long been dissatisfied with Movable Type. But more and more it feels like Movable Type has ground to a standstill. Yes, the folks at SixApart recently released version 3.2 which has lots of enhancements and improvements. Yes, there is still a reasonably thriving community of Movable Typers.
But one of the much-hyped features of the [...]