Agkamai

You might notice some weird stuff happening in this site lately, and you can notice the layout is gone, let me explain you what just happened (more…)

Well these days i’ve been trying this blogging system, that everybody thinks is the greatest. Oh well, this has been a purely deception, and of course it has features that actually Wordpress already has them since 2 or 3 months ago, like the dynamic publication (which also Textpattern has), sub-categories (which both, WP and TXP has), future publishing, so if you are absent for… i dunno 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, you can write some articles and then you can configure them to publish on a particular date, so your blog doesn’t look very alone in your absent time (WP has this feature only).

First of all, is not that easy to configure that dynamic publishing, you have to configure each template you’re using for your archives, so if you missed something in any template, you’re screwed. Of course it’s a requirement to have mod_rewrite, thing that doesn’t happens with WP or TXP, where you’re not forced to use it if in your host is not enabled. So if you don’t have mod_rewrite, sorry, you have to use static publishing and rebuild everything when you’re changing something.

The comment system, in just one word, is ssssssslow.

And some sort of weird glitches for example when you’re using dynamic publishing, the archives doesn’t seem to exist sometimes and sometimes they exist, very weird.

And i can’t see the PHP support on this, i can’t see it, i’m sorry if i look so damn ignorant, but where is it? i can’t see it seriously. And yeah i pretend to be a total ignorant when i’m using a new piece of software just to see how easy is to use it.

So, there will not be a switch to MT3.1 since it’s basically the same with some bloated features and sometimes a little slow, so lets wait until the Six Apart guys give us an explanation on this or something, that tends to happen with this people, but whatever…

UPDATE Like always, this guys are really quick, there’s available a bug fix for all this issues we had

Well i got another plans on this site, and re-start to write again on Spanish just for fun, but this time the Spanish are going to be like a secondary language, so don’t expect so much posts on Spanish, since many people is bugging me to write again on this language i don’t have another choice than doing it, so expect content in this language.

Another point on this changelog i’m putting online is the fact to make more cross-browser this site, apparently my experiment of just making an anti-ie site worked, my stats indicates me that the 53.7% of my visitors use Firefox and the 35.6% just uses Internet Explorer just on July 2004, compared with another months where the average of use was, from IE of 60% and FF of 29.5%. Good to see everyone is switching to Firefox.

From what i researched my site it’s not accesible enough, another point to the list of changes of this site, I think i’m just gonna follow the list of recommendations that Rick is showing to make a website.

I’m considering making a new logo for the site with new colors, probably that will be ok too.

So there you have, a list of new things i’m gonna do for this site. If you have more suggestions make them on the comments. Igual puedes escribir tus comentarios en español, como gustes.

As you can see the lack of updates on this site is because i’m doing the next new layout with more eye-candy, and some evaluations by myself, i’m about to finish the new layout of this site, following the trends of the web on this moments.

When i see the new layout, remembers me the fresh tableless layout of macromedia, of course this is not a rip from these guys…

Anyways, i’m gonna put a colophon (about this site) where i’m going to explain why i change the layout, why this color, why this type of layout and who i am… whatever you can see a lil of what it would be the new layout of the site, enjoy!

agkamai.com prerelease summer ‘04 layout

And remember kids, use Firefox to see correctly this page, don’t even think to use IE, it would be a punishment for you all IE users :D

Have a nice week.

So the fact that SixApart is going to charge MovableType and like i said on the first post, this MT thing it would be temporary, i decided to switch to another CMS, and give it a shot. Many people stick with Movable Type, but in this week i started to hate it, because, is for real a fucking hog for the server, and i hate when this shit needs to rebuild you know update the index file.

I think i like this program, a recommendation from someone else who also uses Textpattern and before SixApart did that annoucement he have MT for his site. Then i try it on my personal server, where i realized that i think this is slightly better in some stuff than WP.

So today ima see that Troy movie that everybody is talking about, to find out if is true that’s a good movie, not to mention, i’m still expecting for Kill Bill Vol. 2.

UPDATE I saw Troy this nite, and it was an ok movie, not so good at all, but oh well.