Just recently Mario and I started a business, as web hosting resellers (company name still undecided). Anyway, as part of this we moved all of our websites over to the new hosting company. The easiest to move this far have been the strictly html sites. Just copy and paste. I still have to go through and check all the links on the gallery site, but for the most part its fine.

The blogs are proving a little trickier to move.  I was happy to see how easy the transferring of information from my old database to this new one was, but then I had to move all of my theme and plugin files.  The Plugins are easy enough to reactivate, but now I have to make sure that the files and paths to all the files are all correct so that the plugins can find the photos and things that they are looking for.

The basic blog functions seem to be working fairly well.  But it appears that my mobile plugin (the one that makes this site viewable on mobile devices) is not happy.  I guess its back to the hacking board.

The good thing about this transition, is that I can rethink my photo plugin.  I had started out using  the AWESOM Pixel Gallery.  I liked it but it was not quite what i wanted.  I was browsing the forums and found a list of other photo plugins.  Browsing that list I found another photo gallery plugin called NextGen Gallery.  I have used it on my moms site (www.lindaorantes.info) and have really liked the ease of use in terms of managing the photos, and then also the user experience of someone looking at the photos.

Anyway, I am sure that the site will get back to fully functional soon.

I have restarted my quest to be able to post photos and text from my phone. most recently I discovered a plugin by Andy Moore that makes your site mobile browser friendly without having to build another version of your site.

As you can see, its easily navigable from your standard t9 phone AND what is exciting is that I can post from this page as well. I was able to post through this interface from The Boy’s phone, but my phone kept hanging and not putting the post through so I need to see if I there is some sort of setting or something on my phone that i can change to fix that.

On the Dashboard side of things, in the Options section you can change several settings so it seems (to me) pretty nicely integrated into WordPress.

It has been cool working with this. Originally there were add links in the header and the footer but I took them out because I felt they were a distracting for the amount of screen realestate on your average cell phone screen. Additionally I have changed the color scheme a little. I am still figuring out what parts of the code change what so the snapshot above will be a little different from the final product, but I am generally happy with this color scheme.

I can’t say enough how much I like working with wordpress. If you want some functionality chances are someone else has figured out how to do it. And then when you find a plug in or a theme most of the time it is totally ok to modify the fuck out if it, so if it generally does what you want it to do, but you want it to customize it to fit your needs then you can (assuming you have the patience to figure out what affects what, or are more skilled than I am)
So Exciting!

Has anyone else out there worked with this plugin, or found other mobile intarwebbin’ tools?

Today the last piece of the puzzle came together.  I had made the Mixed Student Resources site from an html template that I downloaded and then converted it to a wordpress/PHP format.  I found this great tutorial at UrbanGiraffe.com which I used to strip down a wordpress theme and then add in the style from the html theme.  From there I modified the theme to get it to flow the way I wanted and over all things were good.  However I always had one little problem.  On the individual posts, if the actual text of the post was shorter than the sidebar, the background would not meet the footer.  And weirder yet in only happened in Fire Fox.  So a while after I got to that point i posted a comment on the UrbanGiraffe tutorial about my problem.

Today was the day baby!  I checked my email this morning (from my phone of course) and noticed an email from the sites author and he had a fix for me.  Of course it was something so easy, a tiny little line of code that just made it all better.

I love the internet.  You can learn new things, and connect with people that you may never meet.  I really appreciate his help.  They say the web divides people, that it makes us have less social interaction, but I say that it allows us access to other people we wound not have had access to before and allows us to connect on a grander scale.

YeaY Interweb.