A Three Page Site
Client: “Can you quote me for a three page site?”
Me: “Sure. What are the three pages?”
Client: “Home, Contact, and Login.”

via clientsfromhell.net

Once again I've changed the print prices, they're way more reasonable than they were before... and I added limited edition Fine Art prints as well. Everyone should be able to afford smaller sized prints now so please buy some! The 'buy a print' link is easier to see on the main page now; when you click on any image, the link should be right under the larger version of it.

I've updated the paginator class in this framework.. There's now a "first/last" link that shows if the first and last pages are not visible in the list of pages between the prev/next links. See a working example, say, here: miklos.ca/?page=7 (scroll to the bottom.) Dagh.net and sncrly.com use the same class, so these changes should be in effect there too.

First things first, I've added a lightbox feature to the main page. Click on any image on the main page to initiate it. You can also select a tag from the tags page and do the same. Clicking the title within the lightbox popup will take you to the permanent link of the photo. Secondly, I separated the portfolio tag and added it to the main menu. I'll be shuffling photos around in that tag to keep it fresh. Enjoy!

I released a new site design today, which has a few sources of inspiration (the front page is very much like www.ricecracker.net for example.) The old site can be found at 2010.miklos.ca.

Coolest signup form: http://huffduffer.com/signup/

Quick function to display ordinal date in cfml (eg: 1st, 2nd, 3rd)

<cffunction name='ordinalize'>
 <cfargument name='day' required='yes'>
  <cfif day eq 1 or day eq 21 or day eq 31>
   <cfreturn day&"st">
  <cfelseif day eq 2 or day eq 22>
   <cfreturn day&"nd">
  <cfelseif day eq 3 or day eq 23>
   <cfreturn day&"rd">
  <cfelse>
   <cfreturn day&"th">
 </cfif>
</cffunction>

http://golang.org/

I made a bit of a change to jui.cc. When you go to a jui.cc URL, it'll now display a bar at the top of the page with the contents of the URL below it. For example, see the jui.cc URL for my site: http://jui.cc/1

Peter and his coworkers over at Virgo have been working all week to get a flash project working that will stream their former prime minister's speech live (2010-02-05 14:00 GMT).. It has a live twitter feed and has voting capabilities. As a programmer, stuff like this is exciting when it's on such a large scale: http://backchannel.virgo.hu/

I learned something last night.. I had to move a Wordpress site from one domain to another on Dreamhost. I read online that you have to create a fresh install of Wordpress on the new domain, then copy the wp-content folder over from the old domain. Finally you have to reconfigure the wp-config.php file on the new domain to point to the old database. I did all those steps and it was still coming back with a "redirection loop error"; the site caused an infinite loop for whatever reason and was not loading.. I messed around with the .htaccess file, I went in to each table in the database to make sure the old domain wasn't referenced anywhere... no luck. Finally I went back in to the Dreamhost control panel, to the Manage Domains section (https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=domain.manage&) and edited the Web Hosting options for the new domain..

The solution was on this page. It has a section on there that asks "Do you want the www in the URL?" with the options "Leave it alone", "add www" and "remove www" ... I noticed that it was set to "add www" so I changed it to "leave it alone" and the Wordpress site finally started working.

Oh man I haven't been to thinkgeek.com in a while. I love the design changes they made. I especially like the CSS zombies that appear in the background image as you scroll to the very bottom of the page:

árvítűrőtükörfúrógép
ÁRVÍZTŰRŐTÜKÖRFÚRÓGÉP

http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/

Back when Obama was 100 days in office, I made a site called howlonghasobamabeenpresident.com as sort of a gag... Not many people visit it, and I don't really expect them to - it's a gag site! Anyway it's interesting to note that in the recent weeks, people have been searching "how long has obama been president" more frequently. On October 9th, for example, 32 people found the site because they searched those keywords. Why are people searching this all of a sudden? Is it around that time when people start wondering? I guess when the answer "less than a year" isn't enough...

I wish Google Apps had a place where we could change the favicon. The default Google favicon is nice and all, but I like my new M.

Pastebot.net has now been updated to show a "Wrap long lines" option for posts with lines that cause a horizontal scroll. We all hate scrolling horizontally while reading something, no? Please note that the option is only available for the web output and not the Raw or Download options. Try it out with a long line of text versus a short line of text.

There are tons of pastebins out there, but I needed one for myself so here's my take. Keep in mind that more features will be added as time goes on.

http://www.jhnmcknght.org/

You can now buy prints of selected photos. Visit the prints page for more information.

Learned about overflow-x

I made a small change to jui.cc, so now when you create a URL, it will also give you a 140 character input box that you can send straight to Twitter. Try it out for yourself on the Jui.cc URL creation page for this post.

I created a "whitelist" for jui.cc so that facebook and flickr URLs now work. If you have any other valid sites that aren't working, please let me know.

Another new feature... photo search. It's in the same spot as the random links mentioned in the previous post. Go ahead and give it a try.

I added a new feature today: at the bottom of the main page there is now a link to display a "Random: photo | tag | page."

Look what we found on the internet today: http://binaerpilot.no/alexander/ ... Type "about" ... That interpreter was apparently based on my cmd script. Cool!

http://blue-moose.ca/ has been resurrected -- my friend Burk's site -- and now using my framework. Good to have you back, Burk.

You know, I haven't visited Planet Openbox for a while but this morning I decided to visit some of my bookmarks and clicked on it. Funny enough this is where I learned that my log's RSS feed is broken. It's all fixed up now... and in the process I learned that feedburner is owned by Google -- which I guess is old news but I never knew about it until this morning when I went to edit the title for my feed and it asked me to sign in with my Google account.

http://digg.com/politics/How_long_has_Obama_been_president

Sun and moon times are now available on my radar page.