Over the next month I’m going to be working on transitioning my web services to a new web host. While I have been pleased with the availability and service of 1&1, to advance my own personal experimentation I need access to a full server. That is why I signed up for Rackspace Cloud. Rather then maintain two web hosts; it is my goal to consolidate everything on Rackspace.
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Time for a move
August 23rd, 2010WordPress 3.0
June 18th, 2010
So the new version of WordPress has finally been released. It’s been a long trip since version 2.1 where I hopped on the bandwagon, but as always it looks like a great release.
While WordPress has finally decided to up the major version to three, there aren’t any what I would call radical changes to the function of WordPress. I would sum up the changes in three points.
- The merge with WordPress MU is arguably the most major of the changes to the underlying software. Rather than deal with incremental and sporadic updates to the MU, which in the past has been left behind in comparison to the rapid development of the main WordPress, all installations will have MU’s capabilities built in.
- Kubrick has been replaced with the new version of Twenty Ten. I’ve never been fond of Kubrick and this update has been long in coming. The new theme features more flexibility and customization, which will make initial installations more appealing to general users.
- The menu system of WordPress has been standardized in a similar way widgets were. The menu editor features a nice Ajax interface that should make organizing your blogs navigation a snap.
Beyond that there isn’t a whole lot that’s different. There are quite a few tweaks and adjustments, but I wouldn’t call any of them more than the natural growth of a feature set.
As with all WordPress updates, there is a lack of themes and plugins that are marked as compatible with 3.0, though I have not had any compatibility issues with my 2.9 theme and plugins. Make sure to make a backup if you are going to take the plunge and upgrade.
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Alive
June 18th, 2010As usual, I have a tendency of ignoring my blog for large amounts of time. I’ll be making a few posts over the next few days and updating / clearing sections of the site.
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 3.0, and while most things seem to be running just fine there are a few glitches around the site.
Myriad Pro’s Cousin Vegur
March 12th, 2010While working with the Green Park 2 theme by Cordobo, I was awe struck with the native typography. It usually requires a lot of work and graphic (or javascript work around) to achieve anything as brilliant looking. Upon looking at the CSS I found the reason for the drop dead beautiful type, and that is that it uses the Myriad Pro font for its titles. While a good and clean looking choice, the requirement on the user to have such a high level designer font is unreasonable. Feeling there there must be some @font-face friendly font to embed, I stumbled upon this glorious font called “Vegur”.
The Vegur font is not a perfect copy of the Myriad font created by Adobe Systems, and suffers from the alignment issues with the site title in the header; it is acceptable for users who lack the needed commercial fonts. Next on my list is to find a replacement for the Helvetica Neue that is used for the body text … though I don’t believe I even have that installed on my computer at the moment.
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