Finally its up ( still not finished hehe )
Yay its up at last! I thought it was going to be a quick little install and styling job, but nothing is ever that simple. Not everything is finished but I thought I would make it live and do some of the final bits as I go along.
Well I have been very busy working on my little blog and here it is, I hope you like it. I decided to use Expression Engine in the end after toying with the idea of Moveable type, but realized my perl sucks.
I have found EE to be very easy to use and have managed to do pretty much everything I wanted, though I did have to bend some of the stuff in. I will follow up this post with some of the plugins, extensions, and experiences for EE.
Generally I didn't need to do that much to EE but I am using the core version so it doesn't come with some modules like tagging. So I ended up creating my own, I created the following for my blog:
- Snip plugin to easily truncate long posts on the front page
- Tagging Extension & plugin
- Code highlighter plugin using GeShi
The tagging took me a fair while to get going, the major problem being that when I was writing the plugin to get tagged posts I didn't want to re-write all the stuff for outputting the weblog entires. This meant I had to extend the weblog module and try a work my stuff into it. This works but it isn't very elegant and has a slight over head of running one more query than I would like. I will have to look at it again but I will post the code in the follow-up just incase anyone is interested ( or can tell me a better way of doing it! ).
I am pretty pleased with the code highlighter I can now do this with a couple of tags:
- <?php
- class Monkey
- {
- public function __construct( $monkey )
- {}
- }
- ?>
Yeah thats nice...
I have used Mootools to create the download source link, which is a nice 5 second job using moo. I love mootools....
Well thats about it for now I will try and post again soon....
Posted on 02/05/2008 at 10:43 PM
