I guess I’m sort of pleased with how quickly the site has come back together. Movable Type 4.1 is very different, but I’m getting the hang of it. Not being a programmer or web professional, there are a lot of head scratching moments for me. So far, I’ve been able to do just about everything I’ve attempted (except getting the archives to display in proper chronological order).
My friend Peter has a weird text problem, where entries are truncated in such a way as to be unreadable. I haven’t been able to replicate the problem, though I’m sure it’s real.
My friend Wendie isn’t thrilled with the narrower columns, though the prevailing wisdom is, they make a site easier to read.
It looks like I will be staying with this reddish look. Once I built my new masthead with the grunge font, the color scheme was locked in.
I have made some minor tweaks to become more search engine friendly. My quote: Back when I was in school, teachers would always scare me with stories of how my exploits would end up in my permanent record. I believe this is it! – Geoff Fox,” was at the top of every page. It was the except you’d see in search engines.
Now the words are integrated in a graphic, not spelled out in text. The actual page content will now show up in the except. That’s as it should be.
If you have any problems with the site’s operation, suggestions or questions, I’d like to hear from you. You can leave a blog comment or send me an email.
In other related news,, it now looks like the attack on my site produced over 69,000 spam pages! Mind boggling, isn’t it? That’s how many pages Google indexed before I cleaned things up
After a few weeks off their site, Google has resumed indexing me. My traffic is way up – nearly twice normal numbers. Much of that is due to people looking for the pages posted by whoever broke into my system. I guess there’s a market for that stuff.
I’ve posted a robots.txt file, which tells search engines what they should and should not index. Hopefully that will clear away the bogus pages they’re still pointing to.
Blogger’s addendum: Tonight I created a new page, explaining to those who get here by accident, why they’re here. It shows up automatically to anyone who enters a bogus page on this site.
I think the color scheme is great. I suspect that since moving to open source, MT will have more flexible layout control in future versions. Looks great.
I have few complaints, but one is the use of two css files – neither of which is alphabetized or otherwise organized.
CSS, for the non-dweebs reading, controls the style of the blog. It specifies fonts, sizes, colors, etc.
This site is an example of how a CSS file can change a site. Click where it says “select a design.”
The looks are different, but the content is the same. CSS in action!