indigohat

10:17am: XML
WooHoo!!!!

I figured out how to render XML to an html page.. which means I can export all of my blurty entries in XML and manipulate them on my site!!! :) Here is what I've been working on. Granted, it will be much more graceful looking when I'm done. Baby steps.

I'm still not sure how I'm going to handle it though. The end goal is to get EVERYTHING onto MY webserver so that I control it all. Then create a controlled access blog and a regular blog there. I think I want to create one big seamless archive page with ALL of my archives in one place and make all of the entries look the same. Maybe divide THAT archive page up according to 'time periods'... make it my main blog index.

I'm also not sure what to do about friends only and/or private posts. I think I'll have to exclude them.. but thats an awful lot to get rid of.. which makes me want to just leave the blurty entries here and maybe just use XML to integrate them into my index and archives.

At any rate, I learned how to do XML!!!!! :) Yesterday, Moveable Type, Today XML.. tomorrow, (reverb)Web Goddess (/reverb)!

4:30pm: Um yeah.. the site again
So I got most of my templates straightened out on the Movable Type system. There are still tweaks to be made before everything gets moved over though.. and then one of the big reasons I WENT to moveable type was because of some of the features I can use - and I still need to figure all those out. It could be another week before I change over. But I'm excited! :) It's WAY easier to use than blurty every will be and FAR more features than Blogger. I dig. :)