Tidying up

October 11th, 2006

I’ve spent a little time cleaning up the blog as well as adding plugins and widgets. I think it is pretty clean—the look I was going for. Please let me know what you think.

Also, if you are interested, here is a list of some of the plugins and widgets I have used:

  1. Comment Live Preview: plugin that allows you to see your comment as you type it, including processing HTML tags (by Iacovos Constantinou)
  2. Image Counter: plugin to display a counter as image (by Vanguard)
  3. Spelling Checker: checks the spelling of my posts and allows you to check your comment spelling (by Brian "ColdForged" Dupuis)
  4. Social Bookmarks: displays XHTML compliant graphic links to popular social bookmarking sites (by Apostolos Dountsis)
  5. Subscribe Me: displays subscription buttons for RSS and popular aggregators (by Denis de Bernardy)
  6. WP Contact Form: displays the contact form on my contact me page
  7. WP License: displays the Creative Commons license at the bottom of the page (by Nathan R. Yergler)
  8. Widgets: allows me to add widgets to my sidebar (by Automattic, Inc.)

Of course, not all of these installations went smoothly. Many of the plugins and widgets that I have installed and activated needed to be massaged to work on this site. It gave me a chance to brush up on my PHP, JavaScript, and CSS skills.

Update: The e-mail icon on the sidebar is from FamFamFam’s Silk Icons set.

Update: A few more entries into the category of useful plugins:
  1. Feedburner Feed Replacement: forwards your feed traffic to Feedburner (by Steve Smith)
  2. Google Sitemaps: generates a Google sitemap and submits it to Google (by Arne Brachhold)
  3. WP-Cache: very fast WordPress caching plugin (by Ricardo Galli Granada)

Update: I have switched blog engines from Wordpress to Mephisto. The entries above are only valid for Wordpress. Maybe someday I’ll compile a list of the plugins I use for Mephisto…

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