Domestic Geek

Blogrolling Sucks!

I couldn't even load my site last night due to them being down again. I ended up having to take the damned code out of my blog. When they did come back up, is there any mention of a problem on the site whatsoever? No. I'm sick of it. I'm hard-coding my links somewhere else and then I'm going to find some other blog roll solution this weekend. I'm so glad I wasted that money last year for a Gold membership.

Apparently, I'm not the only one fed up with this. This eloquent post at I Am Pariah sums up pretty much how I'm feeling. I know I've read about dissatisfaction with the service many times elsewhere on the web. It's sad because it used to be such a stable, reliable service. I don't know what their issues are lately and neither do they.

Excuse the wonkiness, I've totally broken something. It's a missing div somewhere, I'm sure of it. The comments are jacked, too. I'm going to walk away for a bit and hopefully fresh eyes will see the error.

Update: Thank goodness for the ability to save revisions in EE. It turned out that I put an extra div in when I put the new branica code in. D'oh!

I'm sick of using Blogrolling. I paid for the service a year ago because I wanted more control over the styling of my links. After paying the fee, I couldn't get any decent answers out of them as to how their code is set up. I got "we don't do css support questions" from them. I wasn't asking css questions, jerkwad. Then there was the whole blogrolling outage last September where the news page says "the server migration went well" and then everybody goes on vacation or something. No news for 4 days as to the problem. I could've sworn I wrote about all of this on my blog, but it must've been in other's comments as I can't find mention of it anywhere on my site. Oh, well. I found some sites last night that describe how to set up a blogroll as another EE site. I just need to know how one could show the sites as recently updated or not. That's one of my favorite features. Worst case scenario, I'll just hand code them, y'know?

Here's links for future reference:
—Lisa-Jill EE Blogroll Tutorial
—Dave's Chalkboard EE Blogroll

OK, I'm really going to go nap now. Thinking I'm blowing off work this afternoon at this point.

Sorry if things go a little wonky around in the next couple of days. I'm trying new things on the old blog. I'm absolutely determined to get part of my web business going (blog design) and I need to learn as much about Expression Engine and Wordpress as possible. If you see the site offline message, it means I screwed something up and I'm trying to fix it. That happened today when I was trying to make a second weblog in a new directory and suddenly both URLs went to the same page. I'm noticing Expession Engine documentation is not the best when explaining how to do things. I don't know if it is because most of the people using it are more programming savvy than I or what. If it wasn't for Marcus, I'd have dumped this long ago.

Things at work are getting absolutely stupid. I don't even want to talk about it anymore. It'll just make me more angry. I'm on the verge of snapping, so I need to get away before I get my butt fired.

So, I need a name for my web design business. Any ideas? (serious ones, Marcus!)

I've been obsessing about how to get my mood icons thing to work with Expression Engine. Like I've said in the past, I know just enough programming to get myself into trouble. I know what I wanted, I just didn't know how to do it. I already had a decent javascript array that I wrote to use with MT, but I didn't know how to call it into the EE configuration. I had put a all my html code into a custom weblog field dropdown, but the html characters were breaking it so that the choice wasn't saved if you went back to edit the post. I wanted to put the mood names into that dropdown and then pull the html code out of the array. Marcus just figured out how to do it for me, so Yay!!!!!! All I had to do was a flash intro for one of his sites. Now I can finally move onto something else!