http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:59:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been scratching an itch for the past twelve months that is about to be soothed. Sometime this coming week, I'll have a new blog ready that will focus wholly on tech content. It'll be a place where I can talk about all the things that interest me outside of ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/12/30/starting-up-a-new-tech-blog/ Just installed the latest beta of Windows Live Writer. In view of the issues I've experienced with beta 2 and publishing posts with images, this is a test to the sandbox with a pic. This blog also has the Bad Behaviour plugin installed and activated. Ok, so here's an image ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/09/06/windows-live-writer-beta-3-installed/ So design refreshed NevilleHobson.com is up and running. Everything went very smoothly, much to my pleasant surprise. A bit of work to do on the refreshed site with getting everything just so. Most critical things are taken care of, so I can get to others during the coming days. A ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/08/12/so-far-so-good/ Feeling quite confident that I'm now in the home stretch as far as getting the design refresh completed is concerned. Detail to pay attention to now. Things like mapping out sidebar content structure. Sorting out some odd design issues. Although I'm quite confident that all the plugins I have on ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/08/12/first-get-a-cup-of-coffee/ Now that I've sorted Podpress out, I'm about ready to make the jump to hyperspace, er, install this theme - which I've christened 'NHcom 2.0' - on the main blog. Checking all the plugins I have on the main blog to see which have updates. A number of them do. Not ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/08/12/almost-ready/ Ok, now a test with Podpress version 8.2. As I include podcasts at least twice a week on the main blog, I want to be sure the latest verison of Podpress works and doesn't do bad things liike mess up the RSS feed as my experience with version 7.7 indicated. In this ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/08/11/testing-podpress/ Well, I'm quite pleased with how things have gone so far today with the new main blog design refresh. Overall presentation and layout look good. All works fine. So far, so good. Just upgraded the site to WordPress 2.2.2. All the plugins work and all seems ok. There is one ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/08/11/getting-ready/ For better or worse, I've made my decision to refresh my main blog design with an adaptation of the Suweet 1.0 +Widgets theme created by Michael D. Pollock. This theme is just about what I've been looking for. It has the right combination of simplicity, works with WordPress 2 and ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/08/11/cracking-on/ Even though there's not been much recent activity here, blog design is still very much on my mind. Further experimenting with themes that catch my eye. Latest is Suweet 1.0 from Solostream. I really like its fresh and clean layout. Full width, too. I think I can customize this one ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/08/10/theme-design-is-a-skill/ What is it with Internet Explorer 7? One thing I hear again and again from WordPress theme developers is about the extra steps they have to take in designing a theme to add tweaks and workarounds so that things look as they should do in IE. Take a look ... http://www.nevillehobson.com/sandbox/2007/07/21/ie7-frustrations/