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August 02, 2008 Long Overdue I made some long overdue updates to several pages today, including Drew, Football Weekend, KFFL, and Skiing pages. I also updated the little "drew hevle" box in the right hand upper corner of the main with a new picture. I also removed the "beta" from the twitter box, it's been working just fine, and I added a link to the thought of the day page, just click on the "thought of the day". posted by Drew at 8/02/2008 05:10:00 PM | 0 comments June 21, 2008 Restaurants I updated the Restaurants page by adding a restaurants blog, similar to the Books page, where the blog posts are the last restaurants I've visited, and the page lists the last twenty. A quick change, it took me less than an hour to create the template and test it out. I won't have two separate blogs, "Where I'm Eating" and "Restaurants", like I have in books, I'll just track them as I go (out). posted by Drew at 6/21/2008 11:15:00 PM | 0 comments September 02, 2007 New Host This weekend I moved the site hosting over to godaddy.com, like I've been talking about for years now. My previous host, ev1.net, decided to get out of the shared hosting business as of this Friday. The changeover should have been invisible to you. I copied all the files over to GoDaddy, and tested the site under another domain name before I switched the DNS from the ev1 site. I had to tweak the blogger templates, the server-side includes wouldn't work with the full url, and then I had to update the blogger publishing settings, but I left the file structure the same, so I didn't have to make any major changes. posted by Drew at 9/02/2007 01:04:00 AM | 0 comments May 23, 2006 New TiVo pages I updated the Electronics page, and created a couple of new pages. The TiVo page has the TiVo links that used to reside on the Electronics page, and includes a blog of my TiVo Season Passes. I put in the first twelve of about forty-five, I'll be adding the rest over the next couple of days and updating it as I change my season passes. I also created a page for my Diary of a TiVo Hack since the original post on the TiVo Community Forum has long since been dead. posted by Drew at 5/23/2006 07:56:00 PM | 0 comments February 23, 2006 Results of Main Page Tweaks I updated the little "drew hevle" box in the right hand upper corner of the main page to be a server-side include, so the picture, caption, and thought (I'm calling it the "Thought of the Day") is now a separate blog. This has a lot of potential for easily making changes to the main page without having to rewrite the page from scratch. posted by Drew at 2/23/2006 12:54:00 PM | 0 comments February 20, 2006 Main page tweaks I added some small things yesterday, under Feeds I added a link with a text description to Bloglines, in addition to the little ribbon image link. And I saw this real funny idea, I can't exactly remember where, I think it was here, where a blogger put sarcastic little asides in the titles of the links (hold your mouse over the link and wait a second or two to see them in this post). And then I added my "turn-ons" and "turn-offs". I may turn these into little blogs, like What I'm Reading and What I'm Reading (for Book Club), so that I can update them more often. posted by Drew at 2/20/2006 08:41:00 AM | 0 comments February 02, 2006 More minor tweaks I do this kind of thing all the time, but never bothered to document it, but now that this section is set up as a blog, it's much easier to update. I just started fiddling with the format of the site, and ended up making a couple of changes: February 2, 2006 Very minor change, but I felt like the date was overshadowing the post title. When I first designed the format, I thought that the date would be the most important thing abot each post, like a diary, but the titles are really more pertinent I considered eliminating the date header altogether, and putting it down at the bottom of each post. I still may do that, but I think that this change makes it look better and easier to read. posted by Drew at 2/02/2006 06:11:00 PM | 0 comments January 06, 2006 More blogs I created a blog for this page, the What's New page, so I can more easily add new comments about, well, what's new, and you can more easily navigate amongst the afore mentioned comments. I took basically the same template that I use for the main page and for the Books page and modified it slightly to look like the old What's New page. posted by Drew at 1/06/2006 10:42:00 PM | 1 comments January 05, 2006 Burnt Orange I made the header background burnt orange in honor of the University of Texas Longhorns football National Championship, the first since 1969 (they shared the title in 1970, in 1981 (my freshman year) they finished #2 behind Clemson, and in 1983 they were #2 behind Nebraska before losing to Georgia in the Cotton Bowl, Nebraska proceeded to lose to #4 Miami in the Orange Bowl. posted by Drew at 1/05/2006 12:00:00 AM | 0 comments July 04, 2005 Minor tweaks I had to change the email address at the bottom of every page because I've been getting too much spam. The old address (drew@hevle.com) has been out on the web for about two and a half years now, and somehow the Chinese spammers decided I want to buy whatever they're selling, and I've received about 5,500 emails in Chinese since I started this site. The problem is that email harvesting robots go to every site and look for anything that looks like an email address. I changed the link after about a year to drew AT hevle DOT com, and you would have to edit it to make it work, but it was too late. I had to burn that address, which is a shame, because that email address is one of the main reasons I bought the domain. You should use the new email address, web AT hevle DOT com (and make the appropriate changes). posted by Drew at 7/04/2005 12:00:00 PM | 0 comments June 09, 2005 What I'm Reading Now I started adding the picture of the book to the What I'm Reading and the What I'm Reading For Book Club, this was the first one I did: posted by Drew at 6/09/2005 12:00:00 AM | 0 comments April 12, 2005 Multiple blogs I've been talking about redesigning the site, mainly the home page, for a couple of months now, and I've finally come close enough to put it out there. I combined the blog with the home page, so you just go to hevle.com to see what's up. I also integrated multiple blots on the home page ("What I'm Reading Now" and "What I'm Reading Now [for Book Club]") that will allow me to easily update using Blogger. The "Today's Quiz" and "Today's Poll" had to go; there was no easy way for me to update these. Down the road, I'm going to use this strategy on the Books page. There's a slightly new format, wider, with more subdued colors. posted by Drew at 4/12/2005 02:00:00 PM | 0 comments August 02, 2004 Drew 3.0 Redesign The site got a much needed redesign, in order to add more links, clean up the HTML, and to make it more contemporary looking, with more white space and higher resolution. I tried to keep the "Big Blue" look I've been going for, but add more features to the home page, and make navigation easier by adding expanding menus. There's still a lot to do, and I haven't migrated over to a decent template (I'm still using Word to lay out the pages graphically). The design is much cooler in Word format. I put navigation links on bottom as well as on the left side, and in keeping with the previous version of the site, I left the links on the left the same on every page. posted by Drew at 8/02/2004 02:00:00 PM | 0 comments Last updated 1/1/06 |
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