Well, after reading some comments on blogging and such, I decided since BLOGGER seems to hang up all the time on archiving, I would try something new. I wanted to try MOVEABLE TYPE and downloaded it, but when I looked at the documents, I was not sure what to do. As I was reading a couple of other blogs yesterday, I ran across another program, GREYMATTER, and was lucky enough to find someone who actually wrote an "Installing GREYMATTER for DUMMIES" page to assist some of us that are a bit dumb on such. I am so sorry that I forgot to bookmark that, so I could thank that lady for doing such. I suppose I will have to do a search at some time later to give her a acclaim for her assistance. [such has been done - see UPDATE at the bottom of the post] But not tonight, as I am tired. The only thing that kind of bothers me about GREYMATTER is that the guy who made the program said he kind of dropped working on updating it about 2 or so years ago any longer on a message I saw. Still, from what I saw, it seems to work OK, and I am not one for worrying about really updating stuff that does what I expect it to, or I would probably have a better wordprocessor than WordPerfect 6.1, which was great when I first bought it because WP5.1 didn't seem to like to operate that well under Windows3.11. (As an aside, I really was thinking of buying RADIO, but, as I work on several different computers in several different places, I did not want some software I had to download. I wanted something I could do from the web.)
One thing I will say about BLOGGER is it is really easy to use. I actually do have GREYMATTER up and working, and am working on making my BLOG look better, as I got one comment saying the colors and background on this one are hard to see on some computers. Plus, after seeing some of your other blogs, I thought so many looked so much better than mine, I needed to do an update. I am hitting a few snags though, not so much associated with the program, but more with HTML and such. For some reason, my stylesheet is not working and tables are not stretching like they are supposed to stretch on the archives. I will get those bugs out at some point, I am sure. I usually figure out what the problem is, but I have read through the script several times, and cannot figure out what the problem is yet. Anyway, if you want to see what I have done so far, it is here. I do still have some learning to do before I figure out how to move it to this page, and want to figure out how to keep my archives hooked up and such. Always doing something all the time, and seem to have too many irons in the fire. I have been actually trying to redo my whole site for ever, and only have maybe one page completely finished. And it is only the index page, which has hardly anything on it. For a site I designed 3 years ago, it is not bad, I suppose. My FLASH skills are much better now, but I still think an intro movie is pretty good, but the console is blah! (Oh, wow, the site is really messed up ... I was trying to navigate through the site to get that link and all the links were dead ... I was thinking maybe I deleted all those pages, but didn't remember doing it, and took me awhile to remember, I do not have the domain where all the links are pointing any longer. law-dfw.net is dead, as I am now tiglaw.com)
Thanks to OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY linking up to me, I have moved up the The Blogosphere Ecosystem from being pond scum to some worm crawling up the evolution ladder. Well, let me go read some stuff before I go to bed, and if anything really extraordinary catches my eye, I might post something else tonight. If not, if you are bored, there are plenty of good bloggers on the list on the left side there, and of course, FARK probably has a good list of things to look at. I am not spellchecking this, so if I made some errors, live with it!
UPDATE: Although I am now using Moveable Type, for those of you wanting that link for the "Greymatter Installation for Dummies" site, here it is. 05/15/2003
Posted by Tiger at May 1, 2003 11:06 PM