Roy Ivy III

Idylls, Invention, and Investigation

Hello world!

This blog will be used to keep private notes (primarily for computer setup, software development, and general design; possibly some personal notes) and, importantly, to help develop good blog writing styles and techniques. This was the initial text of this post from WordPress:

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Colophon

Current Theme: iNove, by mg12

Blog Post Writing Format and Style Notes

  • Use citations similar to Wikipedia with internal links, such as those on the Wikipedia page “List of Ubuntu releases”.[^1] Use WordPress shortlinks as post IDs to prefix the internal references (this is needed to make internal links work for both the main page blog roll and the individual blog post). Also, see the citation reference at “Citation Style for Research Papers”[^2] for information about multiple citation styles (including Chicago and AMA).

  • Categories: plural versus singular. Discuss the PROs and CONs…

Inspirations

Blog Style Examples (with saved screenshots [PENDING])

Colophon example

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* Published With: [Squarespace](http://www.squarespace.com/?associateTag=esquareda)
* Font Stack: ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, ‘Lucida Grande’, Tahoma, sans-serif
* Ampersand Stack: Baskerville, Palatino, ‘Book Antiqua’, serif (thanks [Dan](http://simplebits.com/notebook/2008/08/14/ampersands.html))
* CSS3 Extras: text-shadow, box-shadow, border-radius, transition
* Built on a MacBook Pro

Blog Backup Notes and Sites

Protect you blog’s content:

  1. textual post content (including time and comment flow). This is usually in a database on the blog host. Make sure it’s protected, either thru redundant host backup, or, better yet, through frequent personal backups. The word of the host isn’t really good enough. Protect the content with a backup strategy that you understand and can use to restore the blog in the event of a catastrophic host failure.

  2. embedded and attached files (generally images, audio/video, and various other files). Some may be hosted by the blog host (embedded). However, it’s probably safer to avoid embedding the files and to link to them “externally” (thru a URL which is not internal to the blog, but which can be hosted external to the blog). Your blog host can hold and serve the files (eg, thru another URL or an FTP site) as long as the setup allows for transfer of the files to another host with simple DNS updates and file host configuration (moving the attached files should entail no changes to the blog itself). Hosting the files in the cloud (Amazon S3, or other cloud storage) would be a great idea.

In order to protect your blogs content/location and to be able to freely move media assets without changes to the blog, you need to own your own domain(s).

General Blog Formatting

Notes on Graceful Degradation / Progressive Enhancement, “On CSS3: ‘Graceful Degradation’ or ‘Progressive Enhancement’”.

Some thoughts about mobile formatting, “The Mobile Web is Different From the Regular Web”.

Blog Definitions

blogroll

Blog Hosts

WordPress Themes

WordPress Editor Options

At the very least, setup Google Gears to improve the WYSIWYG editor. [ToDO: show steps…]

For offline editing options, see:

Code Formatting

Look at the WordPress.com support page regarding syntax highlighting (“Code » Posting Source Code”) and the WordPress.ORG page “Writing Code in Your Posts”.

Table 1: C# Code Example

 
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// Hello.cs
using System;
class APPLICATION
    {
    public static void Main()
        {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello");
        }
    }

Other blog posts about hosts and code formatting:

File attachments

Load files to an external, accessible web server (eg, grym.wotw.net) and link it within the post. Generally, place the file in a subdirectory corresponding to the “short link” URL to separate same named files for different blog posts and in the blog roll. An example is included with [at the end of this post](\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Zoundry\Zoundry Raven\ImportedProfileWLW\temp_z_raven_mshtml_1266363371.36_tmp.xhtml#pOuXm-1.Attachment-1).

NOTE: I might want to add a specific attachments section at the end of a post for file attachments.

Monetizing a Blog

See:

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1.^ Ubuntu 7.10 SETUP.zip

[^1]: “List of Ubuntu releases”, http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases, (2019-04-04; @).

[^2]: Delaney, Robert. “Citation Style for Research Papers”. Long Island University, http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citation.htm (2010-02-11; @).