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House advertising

2008-05-02

Inspired by the “samples” in the top of the screen at the German blog directory BloggerAmt (and other fades-in/out e.g. for polls), I thought I could add some small announcements and notices of special posts, smoothly faded in and out, on my blog, like this one for my music quiz:

house advertising

If it doesn’t look for you as on the screenshot, please click “reload” or press F5 in your browser…

At first, I tried it above the main content, but that felt too obtrusive, too distracting – so it’s now at the top of the sidebar.

What do you think of it? Annoying? Too inconspicuous? Just right? Any other opinion? :)

Technical note: The items are managed like a blogroll in a separate category, the display is done with a little function integrated into the theme – if you’re interested, » here’s a text file with the code, but, for the time being, only with German instructions (anyone need it in English?).

Update: For a shorter jQuery solution, see this comment.

Myriad

2008-04-20


Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10,000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity.
Wikipedia

So I’m looking forward to the next myriad of spam comments/trackbacks. Not.

Akismet 10004

If I wouldn’t change the name of the wp-trackback.php from time to time and block several typical words inside before they even reach Akismet (the spam filter running here), this number would already have been reached a long time ago…

:motz:

Minor changes

2008-04-03

“Minor” because no new domain, ;) no new theme, but just a few little things I changed here:

  • The header navigation in the blue bar has been extended and enhanced with drop-down menus * – especially I added a link to my little Queen fan site (ag1.de/queen; already a few days ago) and a link to a few older, small Windows utilities (ag1.de/utils). Mainly because my former little portal page ag1.de redirects here directly now.
    (Though I’m vaguely thinking about moving the blog there, but, well, we’ll see…)
  • The feed now also contains the music quotes which I add to the end of (almost) every post.
  • WP-PostRatings, for rating the posts with little stars, was removed due to lack of use – of course they were rather inconspicuous, but on the other hand, I didn’t want a big, maybe distracting “Please rate this post” to point at it. ;)

* These apparently don’t work in IE6, but who cares, the top links still work.

No, I won’t write about the release of WordPress 2.5 now

2008-03-29

Enough others have done that, you know. ;)

To make this post less than 100% useless, let me briefly answer two search queries leading people here today at 17:43 and 18:46:

these lotto numbers bring good luck

10 21 23 29 31 37 (49) – today in Germany, that is. Unless you consider money bad luck…
(Without guarantee.)

vincent raven music

Don’t match. If your nerves are strong enough, you can convince yourself here on the Wotschblog (ex-Just4Fun, German text)…

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