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So I Have Moved…

Written by Lemmon on January 18, 2012 — Leave a Comment

So I have moved my blog. Change was quite trivial. Move the application from my root domain to a subdomain. Easy. Or not?

I must say it was quite painful. I expected an easy switch, considering small amount of content, but I came across some interesting and unexpected difficulties. I was aware of some of them, others surprised me.

I don’t consider myself a blogger, just because I have a blog. Few articles here and there. That’s it. My weapon of choice is Wordpress. Was it a smart choice, or was it a choice at all? Are there many options if you are looking for solid blogging platform on standard LAMP configuration? I don’t think so. At least I haven’t found anything I would be comfortable using.

Plan A) Just move the damn thing to another directory

I know moving blogs is not an everyday routine but I don’t get why it is not as easy as that. Wordpress stores absolute links to its post and pages, including hostname, in the database. Why? Just so you will need to go straight to MySQL and search for your host and replace the string with your new host when moving elsewhere. When I am developing for Wordpress on my localhost I just export the SQL dump and then insert it to the remote server. After replacing the hostnames, of course. Usually works.

Problem occurred when I tried to redirect old links from my previous location to the subdomain. Blog started to redirect back and forth for some reason.

Plan B) Start fresh; I needed an update, so I will try that

Original version was back at its old place. I found function for exporting the content inside the admin’s Tools section. Okay, there were no media included in the single XML file but I will deal with this later. New version uploaded to the new location. Fresh install, pretty easy. Just needed to import the damn XML and then I will do something about those media files. Wait, there is no function for importing the previously exported data? Of course not! There vere several options for installing a plugin for that but I don’t have energy and time left for that!

Plan C) GOTO Plan A and figure out what went wrong there

Thankfully I havent damaged my original copy, database including. To this day I don’t have any idea why the blog (or htaccess from the main domain) was redirecting to /index.cphp but I accomplished what I wanted somehow after few more tries. Htaccess redirects needed some fixes to work properly like I wanted it to, not fighting with new homepage, but I guess I have accomplished what I wanted.

I am stucked with my old Wordpress version for now. With my unfinished template. I just can’t force myself to deal with this thing right now. At least I wrote something. I am pretty sure there are more efficient ways to do what I wanted. This thing is just not my cup of tea…

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Slick CSS Logos & Icons

Written by Lemmon on October 27, 2011 — 1 Comment

This is just amazing presentation of famous logos done purely with CSS. If it is not enough, there are few supporting, again, no-JavaScript-only-CSS animations. If this is still not enough, check this slick iOS icons gallery. Again, done only by using pure CSS. Sad thing, though, is that it currently works only in Gecko (tested in Chrome and Safari) browsers. Firefox, catch up! And the rest… whatever.

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Reactive Documents With Tangle

Written by Lemmon on October 24, 2011 — Leave a Comment

I came across very interesting plugin for creating reactive documents. I like it’s unobtrusive but very flexible at the same time. Perhaps you can achieve the same effect with the form elements but who would want to use that, right? You should definitely check it out.

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Clickable Map Of Europe

Written by Lemmon on May 1, 2011 — 3 Comments

Yesterday I stumbled across a tutorial for pure non-flash solution to clickable map of Europe. It takes advantage of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and amazing Raphael.js JavaScript library. Check it out yourself.

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Pretty Cool CSS3 Stuff & More

Written by Lemmon on April 18, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Very interesting article came out today on Smashing Magazine about new CSS3 techniques and tools. Everybody knows it will take a while this will be implemented and supported by all the major browsers (and those old ones will finally be left behind, for good) but it is nice to know what ahead of us. Image above is a snapshot of CSS3 Patterns Gallery.

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CSS Apple Keyboard

Written by Lemmon on March 9, 2011 — 1 Comment

Well, here goes a crazy one. Pure CSS Apple keyboard. Actually it runs a bit of JavaScript for some more action. Check it out yourself. (via noxxten.com)

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Pure CSS 3D Text

Written by Lemmon on February 1, 2011 — 1 Comment

Found very interesting 3D Text experiment over at markdotto.com. Looks cool and it’s editable. Try it for yourself. (via markdotto.com)

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Pure CSS Progress Bar

Written by Lemmon on September 21, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Amazing idea. Excellent execution. Beautiful CSS animations. Very well done. (via http://ivan.ly/ui/)

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CSS Framework I Use

Written by Lemmon on May 6, 2010 — 2 Comments

I came across a lot of talks about the CSS frameworks lately. Its advantages, disadvantages, and whether to use or avoid them. Frankly, I have to admit I’m not a big fan of these structures but there certainly are parts I find my inspiration in. Through the years of my career I have developed few code snippets I base my every single project on. I’d like to call it a scaffolding structure rather than a framework. Here it is:

@import url(reset.css); /* Eric Meyer's CSS Reset */

/* Elements
============================================================ */

body { background:#000; color:#fff; }

body, input, textarea, button, cite { font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; }
body { line-height:22px; }

a       { text-decoration:none; color:#06c; }
a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }

h1 {  }
h2 {  }
h3 {  }

strong { font-weight:bold; }
em   { font-style:italic; }

/* Classes
============================================================ */

.wrap  { width:960px; margin:0 auto; }
.clear { clear:both; height:0px; line-height:0px; font-size:0px; }

.left  { float:left; }
.right { float:right; }
.al    { text-align:left; }
.ac    { text-align:center; }
.ar    { text-align:right; }
.col50 { width:50%; }

.tiny   { font-size:11px; font-weight:normal !important; }
.big    { font-size:15px; font-weight:bold; }
.strong { font-weight:bold; }
.gray   { color:#666; }
.black  { color:#000; }

.nowrap { white-space:nowrap; }

.hide { display:none; }
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36 Web Buttons Collection

Written by Lemmon on April 14, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I came across this awesome buttons collection. You can download it as a free Photoshop template. It looks great and I am definitely going to use this in my next project. I just don’t know what it is just yet.

Link: http://www.sketchdock.com/freebies/36-web-buttons-collection.html

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