Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Hello to everyone visiting from Digg.com today. Dreamhost has set a connection limit to our site to allow only 25 users every 5 seconds in an effort to keep their webserver from crashing.
If the site doesn’t load properly, or you get a “Service Temporarily Unavailable” message, please be patient and try again in a minute or two. If you’re here to see the new Hoverbox Menu article, the nice folk at digg have also mirrored the page.
If this is your first time visiting, Top 5 Posts at Design Meme is a good article for reviewing some of the things I’ve posted here in the last few months.
Tags: development, hosting, tutorial
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
This week you may already have noticed the newly launched version of Design Meme. It’s more of an evolution from the previous design, rather than a completely new direction. The overall darker design is something I had intended to do since switching from Movable Type to Wordpress and moving to the new hosting company. I also wanted to move away from the standard 2-column blog format a bit, and get a bit more creative with colours and typography.
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Tags: blog software, hosting
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Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
Many of the interesting techniques I’ve been seeing on other blogs, like AJAX comment submission, and live comment preview, are default features of the new K2 Beta theme. Unfortunately, when I switched to the new template the comment preview didn’t seem to be working. I tried downloading the files again, de-installing, re-installing, but the comment preview still wouldn’t work. I spent a while looking at support blogs, forums, and even the PHP code for the plugins themselves before I realized what was going wrong. I’m hoping that posting a brief explanation of the problem, and how to fix it, will be helpful for anyone else who runs into this issue…
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Tags: blog, blog software, hosting, plugins, tutorial
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Sunday, January 1st, 2006
Here’s a special New Year’s offer I’m making to webcomic artists. If your New Year’s resolution was to setup your own website for your comic, I’d like to help you get started.
Sign up for any new 1 or 2 year hosting package with Dreamhost and I’ll help by setting up your blog for you! Wordpress, the most popular optional plugins, and one of 3 great starting templates. If you think it wouldn’t be too hard to setup Worpress on your own… you’d be right! If you don’t need any technical help, you can use the promotional code ‘WEBCOMIC’ when you sign up with Dreamhost and get an extra $15 off. More details are available on the Webhosting page .
I moved DesignMeme to Dreamhost in late November when I saw the prices starting at $7.95 a month. I was a bit surprised at how inexpensive that was compared to what I remembered from a few years ago. Since moving the site my Adsense earnings have really improved and now more than cover my hosting costs! Moving the site is something I should have done a long time ago, and if you’re considering making the move in 2006—I encourage you to go for it.
Tags: hosting, webcomic
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Well, Design Meme has more of less been transfered over to the new host.
At first I wasn’t sure which hosting service I was going to pick. My friend Aron had good things to say about GoDaddy, but I decided to go with Dreamhost again. I’d used Dreamhost for some other sites, and I knew I could get things setup pretty quickly. They’ve recently added Ruby on Rails to the list of goodies you get with hosting, and I’d been wanting to check that out. DJ and Nate are also on Dreamhost, and they seem pretty happy with it. Of course the biggest incentive for going with Dreamhost was the price—much lower than I had expected. When I saw their new prices I signed up.
Having a proper webhost is something I should have done years ago. When I was updating the site a bit more frequently, around the time I was writing articles for A List Apart, I figured it was a good deal not to have to pay for any bandwidth bills so I used my free account from the University. Similar thinking went into moving the blog to blogspot.com. Now I’m thinking that wasn’t the best idea after all. Links to Design Meme are spread across three different sites.
I’ve started moving everything under the designmeme.com domain, but don’t want to have people’s links, bookmarks and search results get messed up. Fortunately I found a quick tutorial on using htaccess to redirect links and it seems to be working nicely. I’m thinking about adding a Google Sitemap as well to see if that helps as well.
Tags: hosting
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