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Today I am proud to announce the Spacedmonkey is going into version 5. I have been working on this new design for nearly 3 months now, picking at it, redesigning it and adding new features, but today I am finally happy to put this baby to bed. This new design means a new start for this blog. The original design was based on the same theme and colouring since the blog’s inception in 2005.
This is a big change for spacedmonkey, meaning lots of changes in the way the site works and the content that will be added to the site. For a start, I am going to change the site into a video/images blog, posting videos and images of stuff that I found interested around the web. The mixtures of technolgy blog and weird rants made for a mixed message on the site. Hopefully this new improved focus will make for easy to manage and a compelling site to read.
Not only is there a change in focus of the site, but a lots a change in technology including
- New HTML5 and CSS3 design
This site is now build using the latest and greatest in web technoligies, making for a clear code and a more usable site
- WordPress 3.0
The site now uses the latest version of wordpress and will in the future include some very clever new sections that rely on the “custom posts types” technolgy.
- Improved commenting system
- Threaded comments
- WYSIWYG editor on comment fields
- Tabbed areas to see comments and trackbacks
- Improved navigation
- External links now in new windows
- Lightbox plugin for viewing images
One last note, this site is focused on pushing the boundaries of web technology, so from this point forward I will no longer support internet explorer 6 and there will be limited support for internet explorer 7. If your viewing the site please upgrade to a browser that was released within the last 5 years. Why not give Chrome a try.
Watch this space 
This is a big post for me and I have been thinking about what I was going to write on it. Firstly the title, this blog has already had 100 posts on it but after the revamp, I got rid of many posts. So to my count this is my 100th post in this new version. So firstly, Spacedmonkey is now is version 3.7. There are lots of style change, most importantly is the new wide style. This feature came about when using my Macbook to edit the site and thought that with it’s wide screen, the page looked like it wasted a lot of space. The new wide style fits the site to the width of your screen and makes it a lot easier to read. To use this feature, section the wide style in the right hand bar.
You may also notice that there is a new logo, pictured above that I have been playing around with. I like it alot but when have the time and the graphic design skill I will redesign it and place it somewhere within the site.
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Just a quick note to all those who are reading this, I have recently setup my facebook profile to automatically converts everything I post my blog, spacedmonkey as notes. This means that my blog can be read from directly within Facebook and means my writings and rants get more eye balls on them. There may be so posts that are completely random, pointless, stupid, nerdy, weird or generally not understandable but keeping reading, their really is some gold. So if you are reading this as a note, check out my blog at www.spacedmonkey.co.uk or click on the original post link at the top that says “View original post”.
Hey everybody, just a quick note to say hello and that I am still alive. The thing is, spacedmonkey and all my web sites went down the other day I didn’t come back up for over two day. I must admit that those were two of the most horrible days of my life. I really have put lots of love into all of my websites and the thought that they would never come back up again really made me sad. So at the thought of my site going down, I thought of all the things that I have been meaning to blog about and have not. So I am going to try much hard to get some on here. I am going to try and write something on this blog at least once a week. Anyways. Just so you know, we are back and ain’t going anywhere.
The new and cool thing on the internet is something called Micro-blogging. Basically Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that lets you write brief text updates (usually less than 200 characters) about your life on the go. It always people to quickly update their friends without sitting down for ages to write a long post. There are lots of sites there that do this like Jaiku and Twitter.
Facebook has also added status update which gives 160 character field to write a small little place to wite a personal update. This status is shown in the News feed and can also be outputted as an RSS feed. As I spend lots of time updated this, so I thought I would add to this site. The new feature which I am currently testing at the moment appears on the right hand sidebar, under the heading, My status. It adds a personal touch to the site and adds a new element to page.
I would like to know what you think of it, so please comment.
Spacedmonkey now has a image gallery. The “photos” includes all the times I have taken with my digital camera and mobile phone over the last couple of years. There is some really nice pictures like graffiti which I found around the corner from where I am currently living in portsmouth.
It is a feature that has been in the pipelines for a long time and until laterly I haven’t managed to get working. All the images in the photo gallery are hosted on my Flickr account which I have been updating weekly for nearly a year. It means that you can browser the many images without worrying about bandwidth limits. This is all made possible by a lovely plugin called
Flickr Photo Album for WordPress. It is simply amazing, as it works so well with Flickr. It even has many of the features of Flickr, like search, feeds and tags.
Adding the photos section shows the move away from what this blog used to be. I have no plans to turn this book into a personal dairy, but it is nice to share my things of interest with the world at large. So enjoy my pictures and watch this space.
Spacedmonkey the blog of randomness is changing. Along with a little bit of a face lift, lots more things have changes including it’s content and it’s focus. Firstly and most importantly, as of today, there will be no more posts about computer and technology on this site. Even the back posts about tech subjects have been removed. Many of these posts will be moved to a new blog, which should be up and running called The Computing Corner. The site has a new focus as a blog of interesting articles and writings.
More improvements include
- Sexy new look
- New section, titled works, with little writtings and other things I have done.
- A dynamic archive page, list of all the posts and static pages
- Improved load time
- New tagging system that allows posts to be sorted by taggs
- Easier to find hyperlinks within text
- Rewritten About page, with lots more information
- New Questions and Answers page, with lots of explanations of some of the Technical features of the site
- More information about the site is included at the footer of each page
- Improved submission to del.icio.us and Digg
- Improved spam filtering on comments
- The site now uses WordPress 2.1
- New background images from the header, including a really cool lego design
- Refinements to the rss feed and search plug-in
- New contact form, which a input box for the subject of your form.
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In the last couple of days, this site has been going up and down like a yo-yo. This is because I transferred this site onto a new host called Media Temple (mt). It is an nice looking host, gives me lots of options, but I am going to pass on making any comment about it until I have really tried it out. While I was transferring to the new host, I thought I might as well upgrade the content management system, from WordPress 2.03 to the band new 2.1. The new wordpress 2.1 is giving me lots of problems with some of the plug-ins. I needed to sort out the contact form, which is giving me lots of problems, even with the RSS feed. So instead of using the contact form, if you want to tell me about any of the problems you are having with the site, please just email me.
Just thought I would just tell people what is going on and ask people to tell me about problems you have with the site.
Thanks
Spacedmonkey admin
Jonathan Harris
