Remodelling
I’ll have a new skin up here soon, probably within a week. The design is just about done, I just need to finish getting the comments window designed and then break everything down for the PHP and EE templates. Whee!
Comments
Yeah, I hadn’t tested those out yet. They are broken, more digging around in my directories cleaning up links. *sigh*
Yippee.
edited - forgot to say this yesterday, but comments should be working now.
Coming along nicely
Well it’s taken me less time to piece this place back together than I thought it would. Although if I move directories now, I’ll have to do a whole lot more correcting in the templates and in the skin files, so… Yeah, I think I’ll stay here for now. The hacker attacked the place in a different directory anyway, and as I said then, I wiped everything out and started on a clean slate. And got rid of the old MT install since I figured that is probably how it got in.
Next on my plate is to save up enough $ to pay for the commercial license so I can hype stuff I want to sell at my other sites without guilt.
gallery, pt 2
Uploading the images back into the gallery. I had to remove the hacker’s files first, thankfully since the gallery directory should ONLY have images in it, the bad files were easy to spot.
Not that there is anything new in there right now, but at least it’s back and operational.
gallery
Hmm. I just realized that my gallery is defunct. Guess I should remove that link until I get something in there again. It went bye-bye when I had to delete everything when my site got hacked and I just never got around to uploading stuff again. Heck I don’t even remember which pictures were there. I *may* have the directory backed up somewhere…. off to go look.
Cleaning up
I still haven’t moved directories yet, but I’m slowly cleaning up around here. I just got done taking out dead links and updating other links in my blogroll. I almost couldn’t remember my damn login info for blogrolling, let alone my password.
Yeah, it’s been a while!
one last thing..
Josh’s blog may not work at this time, I still haven’t recreated the directory for his yet. But I think he was even less apt to post than I was, so I’ll leave it up to him if he wants me to put it back. 😊
And I think the dragon skin is broken, too. I’ll eventually get it fixed.
no cookie for you!
The site was gone for a few days, and subsequently moved, too. I set up a 301 redirect, so if it is working properly, you should still get here when you go to my old URL (but please update your bookmarks, thanks!).
I had to dump my whole subdomain folder and start over from scratch, because some nitwit hacked into my folders and placed some code to phish for our webserver account’s passwords. Assholes. Then I had to create a new directory structure so that whatever software the douchebags were using to hack in wouldn’t be able to find their way back to the same files. I debated whether to put the blog directory back where it was, but I figured if I didn’t, any of the few readers I may have left (all two of you… no? one reader? meh.) wouldn’t be able to find my site. So all that’s in that directory now is the redirect.
I’ve also been trying to clamp down on the referrer spam and set up htaccess blocks. Stupid spammers. Every new one I find will be added to that list, and never shall they grace us with their presence any further… Bastiges!
Oh, and if you happen to be browsing back through my archives, and find a bunch of stuff that is broken (mostly images), that is because those were all linked to my old MT blog directory, and that one went bye-bye forever (as I suspect that may have been where the dumbshits gained access, after having a tech-savvy person look at the hacker’s code). Maybe someday I’ll correct the pics, but I doubt it. That was a lot of images, and I’d have to correct all the links to them. No thanks! More work than I’m willing to put up with at this point, this invasion wore my patience to the breaking point. Rebuilding the blog with minimal stuff in the directory was about all I had the motivation to complete. Sorry.
I’m kind of mad though, because MT had a handy image uploading schema that made really nice and quick pop-up URL’s. I never could get EE’s to work so I always used MT’s. Oh well. I guess no more pop-ups unless I can get it to work in EE. That is for another day.
Oh, and no more trackbacks, either. They were rarely used, and it’s one less thing that I’d need to chase down spammers on, if it started to be abused.
upgrade quirk
And I just now notice a weird quirk after having upgraded to EE 1.4…. the posting date format is all wonky…
Time to go look for the problem an’ fix it. Heh.
Update: Wow, talk about some super sensitive software… I had an extra space in the code for the date stamp ever since I built the Valentine skin and its template and the previous version of EE read it just fine…. This version was choking on the extra space.
But the good news is, I figured out the problem without having to ask anyone at the EE forums for help. Yay!
If you see any other weird issues crop up since the upgrade, please let me know!
made another blog…
No, I’m not abandoning this one, although I’ve posted more entries today than in the past two weeks… But anyway, I made a blog using WordPress for my pregnancy and future baby stuff. If you’re intrested in getting the URL, you’ll need to email me, or post a comment requesting it.
I chose WordPress for that blog as it has password-protection on the entries built into the program, rather than having to hack it myself like I sort of did with EE here, and with that, it only prevents anyone who wasn’t registered and approved in a certain category from reading the posts, which required tweaking the templates to get it to hide the posts to the general public. Probably more work than it was worth as I don’t use it much.
But anyway… as I said, anyone interested in the URL, comment here or send me an email.
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