http://www.cbulock.com/cat/website.html Posts related to this website, Movable Type, and web design in general. http://www.cbulock.com/cameron.jpg http://www.cbulock.com/cat/website.html 87 95 Copyright 2003-2010 en-us cbulock@cbulock.com 2010-02-25T22:30:19-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2010/02/site_remake_still_underway.html Way back on Jan 13th of 2008, I made a post about how I was planning to rewrite the code behind my Cameron's Thoughts site. While that got side tracked for quite a while, I did at one point have a mostly working redesign done. But it wasn't to my liking and then I pretty much pushed that project to the side and didn't work on it. That is no longer the case however. For the last couple months, I've been back on course with redoing this code. I now has some decent progress made. I have the code opened up for all to see the progress at Github. I also now have the beginnings of some actual documentation behind the code as well. 629@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2010-02-25T22:30:19-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/site_rewrite_update.html About a year ago, I wrote an entry explaining plans for a site rewrite. I put this on hold for a while, but the last few months I have been starting progress on this. I have decided to scale back some of my plans on this, it's not going to be quite as complicated as I initially intended. At this point I have written a new CMS from the ground up for this new site. It includes an templating system that generates all the HTML for me. The site rewrite is no where near complete, but I now have enough done to share. Be advised that this is a work in progress and might be down at times as I work on it. The new site is currently located at http://new.cbulock.com. I have made sure that everything will be backwards compatible, and that all the URL's will stay the same. Any feedback would be great. 607@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2009-01-03T17:14:09-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2008/10/full_comments_are_back.html I have brought back the ability to comment on this site without the need to login. The only change now is there is a basic question that is asked that proves you are a human and not a bot. Please let me know if something isn't working with that. 598@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2008-10-09T01:05:48-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2008/01/site_rewrite_underway.html I've made a decision to start a rewrite of this entire site from the ground up. Cameron's Thoughts 3.0 will be the next generation code base that this site will be based on. I started a wiki to track progress and to record idea's and such. When I created Cameron's Thoughts 2.0, I didn't have my idea's well organized and it became somewhat troublesome near the end. I got things together and everything turned out fine, but this project will be way more immense and I have a much better idea of what I am in for now, so I am able to better plan ahead. The following is my current info taken from the wiki. 564@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2008-01-13T23:35:37-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2007/08/comments_are_back.html The comments are now turned back on, though at this time you actually need to register an account on this site to use them. I hope to have guest comments working soon, but I need to get some anti-spam measures in place first. This also means that the account registration feature is now functioning on here. I've spent a lot of time getting this working lately, hopefully I will have some nicer customization features here for people who are logged in. 544@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2007-08-25T17:55:13-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2007/08/comments_website.html I have disabled comments and trackbacks on the site for the time being. I will soon have them back up. I am in the process of implementing my own registration and user system, and the comments will be a part of that when they come live again. I'll still allow for guest comments to be posted, but I wanted the comment system to be seamless with the user logins that will soon work. The new user login system is going to be pretty cool. Setting changes will be able to follow across computers, you'll have lots of control over the site's appearance, such as turning off ads and turning off different sections. 539@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2007-08-12T20:42:31-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2007/06/google_ads.html I have finally surpassed the $100 mark for ad revenue coming into this site. During that same timeframe I spent close to $125 to actually run the site. But, now that I passed this mark, I will at least finally see the money come in the mail. 531@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2007-06-11T05:28:10-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/10/need_to_update_site_design.html I'm thinking I need to overhaul the look of this site. The current look is essentially the same since June '05 when I released Cameron's Thoughts 2.0, I'd like this to be more along the lines of Cameron's Thoughts 2.1. I don't want to make any underlying changes to the site, just something to update the CSS and maybe some minor content and layout changes. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. 484@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-10-29T21:53:36-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/08/revamped_cameronbulockcom.html I have redone my other website, Cameron.Bulock.com. It is now based on some CMS software that a friend of mine, Dan Krause and I have been developing. There are some plans to have a comment system added in the near future, so, it's a possibility that I may replace Movable Type on this page with this CMS. It's pretty exciting at this point because we are adding new features everyday. If you would like your own site to be powered by this software, for the time being it's only commercial, there is no free version. That may change at some point, it's being discussed.. If you would like a license for the software, let me know. 471@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-08-06T01:35:49-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/04/stylesheet_free.html As you may notice, this site is now stylesheet-less. This will only be for one day as it's the First Annual Naked Day. I'm not afraid to show off the content of this site though. If you can't stand this, there are some style links on the menu above to setup a stylesheet for the site. 429@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-04-04T22:01:25-05:00