A New Home
Yep, so I made up my mind and went with WebzPro. Spent quite awhile setting it up and toying with it. Speed is pretty decently, but a small tad slower than Blogspot. Lots of stuff are still being left to be done tomorrow, but settled with WordPress as my blogger.
I don’t really have a good reason for this, but its just one of the little things that annoy me. Graphical smilies. If I type a ‘:P’ it damn well better come out as a ‘:P’, not some ugly graphical representation of it. Its really a stab in the eye when reading a page full of text and then one of them appears and break your, err.. I don’t really have to word to describe it atm, but for now lets just call it “concentration”.
So, after my initial horror of finding out that WordPress has smilies on by default, and frantically searching through the admin area for the “off” button, it would appear that such an option was included. A search on Google didn’t get me what I was hoping for, but something close enough. A user was looking for a way to limit to the number of smilies allowed per comment, and something about vars.php was mentioned. A few clicks later and I had that opened up, found a chuck of what smilies and the path for their images, commented out the whole chuck, and it worked :D.
After migrating my few, old posts from Blogspot, and was about to compose my first post, I noticed a feature lacking that I failed to notice previously, the lack of a spell checker. This maybe insignificant for most, especially for a good portion of the local bloggers here, but I do make an effort to make sure I eliminate most of my typographic errors. Did some searching around found that the only version(s) of WordPress with the feature is the nightly CVS builds, so yep, thats what I’m running on now. Unfortunately, it doesn’t check for grammatical errors as well as Blogspot’s, but I’d have to make do with it for the moment being.
More to come tomorrow… or today!
EDIT: It seems that with this version 2.1alpha3, the option of turning the smilies off is available!
