Just another Polymathic site

Grrr… I wish I understood the syntax for .hta files a little better. It’s one of those things that you only use like once every couple years though, so I can’t complain too much.  I did finally got some good 301 redirects to forward like I wanted, the rest I can probably steal from someone else. List of things I still need to do:

• Smaller sheep (fancy logo vs. plain logo?)
• Improve the overall CSS and broaden the palette
• Categories, Tags, and Menu
• Menu must be prettier than this
• Build a better to-do list

Finished product… It will be ready, when it’s ready.  Just like the next Duke Nukem game, or was that Doom 3.

So I see that a few people have stumbled here lately, and might be wondering what the heck is going on. Well, I’m in the middle of making some changes to the site, and most of what you see here now is just me testing various features, plug-ins, formatting, and other features. Eventually all this stuff will be deleted, and replaced with relevant content. Until then, you can enjoy the random stuff.

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Here’s a post with a link in it. Wonder how it will look.

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page’s performance, summarizes the page’s components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint.

YDN is now offering commercial Terms of Use for the Updates API and the Updates Firehose API (which uses YQL). These APIs give access to social interactions and user-generated content from Yahoo!’s global audience of more than 600 hundred million people. Under the new terms, developers and publishers can get permission from Yahoo! users to use their social data and activity streams to build new applications both on and off the Yahoo! network.

When I first decided it was time to add Facebook Connect to a website, I figured it would be no big deal. Facebook is a social media powerhouse, I figured, so they must have tools to simplify the process. Plus, I use WordPress! So I was fairly confident that some enterprising developer had already created a plugin that would add Facebook Connect to the blog with a few clicks. 

Boy was I naive. Adding Facebook to a WordPress site is harder than it sounds. I spent days testing out plugins with varying degrees of success. Each plugin had it’s own set of quirks, Facebook features that worked or didn’t, one plugin even shut down the whole site!

Luckily, integrating Facebook was not a total FAIL. After much testing and tribulation, Facebook Connect is now humming along happily. Visitors can login and comment using their Facebook ID, post comments back to their main stream, join the fan page with a single click and a handful of other nifty Facebook features that encourage visitor loyalty and interaction.

Take the benefit of my experience, and read this article before you begin the process of adding Facebook Connect to your WordPress website. Here are 3 different WordPress plugins for installing Facebook Connect.

Here is a test video