{"id":13,"date":"2003-08-18T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/WebDev\/ThisSite\/wheretobegin.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"wheretobegin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/08\/18\/wheretobegin\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, now that I have a basic site up and running, what next?  Things in my todo list (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visual design (see separate list below)<\/li>\n<li>Comments\/trackback<\/li>\n<li>Blogroll<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">RSS<\/span> feed<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Setup a logfile analyis tool<\/li>\n<li>gzip compression<\/li>\n<li>Write!<\/li>\n<li>improve the wikieditish flavour.  I want to add links to insert em dashes, en dashes, etc., add a preview mode<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn2\">2<\/a><\/sup>, and clean up the textile help I copied from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textism.com\/tools\/textile\/\">Textile homepage<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn1\"><sup>1<\/sup> Technically, I already have an <a href=\"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/index.rss\"><span class=\"caps\">RSS<\/span> feed<\/a>, thanks to the wonders of Blosxom&#8217;s flavour system, and the built in <span class=\"caps\">RSS<\/span> flavour.  I&#8217;ve even made a tweak so it will <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.archive.org\/validator\/check?url=http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/index.rss\">validate<\/a>.  But I intend to do more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn2\"><sup>2<\/sup> In fact, I want to go one better than preview mode.  The idea is a &#8216;publish&#8217; checkbox.  If checked, works just like now.  If not, the file is saved as <cite>something<\/cite>.txt~.  Will have to do some tinkering so wikieditish can still display the ~ version.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the above are just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blosxom.com\/plugins\">plugin<\/a> away.  I just <em>love<\/em> Blosxom!  Even gzip compression just became available today as a plugin.<\/p>\n<p>The visual design I&#8217;ve already begun, and continue to play with.  Todo&#8217;s here include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fonts (!)<\/li>\n<li>Fix IE rendering (ugh)<\/li>\n<li>Tweak right-side &#8216;panelets&#8217; color scheme, sizing<\/li>\n<li>Improve rendering of story titles and panelet titles<\/li>\n<li>Overall negative space tweaking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve reading up as well.  I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0735712018\/jclarkorg-20\">Zeldman&#8217;s Book<\/a>\n<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn3\">3<\/a><\/sup> on order at Amazon.  Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been browsing such places as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csszengarden.com\/\"><span class=\"caps\">CSS <\/span>Zen Garden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/\">A List Apart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westciv.com\/style_master\/house\/index.html\">House of Style<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Visibone&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visibone.com\/colorlab\/\">Webmaster&#8217;s Color Lab<\/a> (Best toy for playing with colors I&#8217;ve found)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn3\"><sup>3<\/sup> Full Disclosure: I have enrolled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/associates\">Amazon Associates Program<\/a>.  The provided link to Amazon.com includes reference to this site.  I will get a kickback if you buy through this link.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, now that I have a basic site up and running, what next? Things in my todo list (in no particular order): Visual design (see separate list below) Comments\/trackback Blogroll RSS feed1 Setup a logfile analyis tool gzip compression Write! improve the wikieditish flavour. I want to add links to insert em dashes, en dashes, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thissite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}