Tech

This is nice to know — I just signed up with BlogSnob to display little text ads (you should be able to see the ad on the right side, between “Books” and “blog rings/links”). I display links to other people’s blogs, and my link gets displayed on other people’s blogs. I just checked my stats, and since I signed up on the 7th — just four days ago — my ad has been displayed 208 times, and I’ve had 6 people visit my site from my BlogSnob ad on another site. This gives me a 2.88% click-through rate, which while it doesn’t sound very high, when ad banner click-through rates are commonly reported at somewhere around .25% or lower, it’s pretty good. I’ll be staying with these guys.

I was having some problems getting the code to validate, but just got a little help from ServMe (FriedKitten), and now everythings validating and displaying without a hitch. Woohoo!

While this site and its contents are protected by U.S. Copyright Law, I may want to look into officially registering. It’s more of a formality, as I don’t really think someone would try to claim that any of this drivel is their own — but why not?

I can apply for an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) for my blog, making it a legitimate publication in the eyes of librarians everywhere! Pretty cool, huh?

I spent some time this morning doing some more tweaking, trying to get the archives into a more useable and user-friendly format. The current layout has a calendar for the current month displayed, with any day that I’ve made a post as a clickable link that will take you to that day’s posts in the archive files. Underneath the calendar are links to the monthly archive pages dating back to Nov. 2000. The ‘full archives’ link underneath that links to a page listing every post I’ve made, split up into categories in a table. On that page, the header for each table will take you to the full category archive (these pages can be huge, though), and the individual post links will take you directly to each post on its own.

Hopefully this will make digging through my archives a bit easier (in case there’s anyone here quite crazy enough to bother).

I just nuked the splash page for my site, so now this page should be the first thing you see. I’d been tossing it over in my head for a while, as it really didn’t serve a purpose other than making it just a little harder to get to the actual content of my site. Then, today I came across Web Pages That Suck, and it opens with a splash page that goes into detail on why splash pages shouldn’t be used. So…mine’s gone.

Just imagine — now you can get to the random babble that I put up here that much faster!

I got this e-mail today regarding my comments on OmniWeb in my browser compatibility chart:

From: Andreas Varga <xxx@xxxxxx.xxx>
Date: Wed Feb 27, 2002 03:12:09 PM US/Pacific
To: djwudi@yahoo.com
Subject: browser compatibility

Hi…

Just wanted to let you know that you should revise your opinion about OmniWeb. The latest sneaky peek versions have much improved CSS support. The attached screenshot shows your page using the latest sneaky peek version 49 released today. While it’s not perfect, you’ll surely agree that it’s a huge step forward.

Regards,
Andreas

Well, he was right. OmniWeb is making great strides forward, and I’m now looking forward to the next public release. Thanks Andreas, and the compatibility chart has been updated.