My technical blog - in beta form (finally)

April 2, 2008

Posted in: Computers, PHP, Programming

Tags: admin, arsin, Beautiful, beta, blog, code, Day, entry, Everything, job, scratch, solution, theme, Wordpress, XHTML

So, as a personal experiment I’ve been developing a technical blog from scratch.

Well I’m happy to say it’s now into a beta stage and available to view by anyone. There’s not a lot to it, just a few entries and no way to comment (yet), but it’s working and it’s doing the job it’s been programmed thus far.

You can see here the basic form, I’ve built it from a theme developed by arsin called Beautiful Day. Everything else has been done by me. I’m pretty happy with the little calendars I built (look ma, no tables!). I’ve been struggling with trying to keep the whole thing XHTML valid, but I’m getting stuck when trying to show code inside an entry. I know the problem, and I’m working on a solution, just takes time…

I even have an admin area to add and edit entries. There’s not a lot right now, but I have plans for it - great plans… Of course nothing that will rival Wordpress or any of the likes, but it will work as I want it to.

You can see the blog at http://merchant-creations.com

Posted in Computers, PHP, Programming