Desultory Thoughts

Now that I finally got the site working like it should I decided to personalize it. The design was inspired by the video opener that is appended to most of the videos I do. It’s an animated opening with a song that my brother Dave composed. I’ll post the song one of these days, it’s very cool. Better yet, I’ll post the opener. I did it with Adobe AfterEffects. I’m quite fond of it myself. The first version was done in Adobe Premier, then I redid it in AfterEffects which was a great way of learning all that AfterEffects has to offer.

Switching to WordPress [wordpress.org] didn’t go quite as smooth as I had hoped, but hopefully it will pay off. I’m just glad I made the switch early with only a handful of posts to transfer. There is an import tool in WordPress that should seemlessly transfer all of your posts and comments from Blogger.com. It may have been the way I set up the database and the SQL server, but when I imported the posts and assigned them categories, the category pages weren’t being created. I’m actually still having that problem with the “Blog” category. When you click on a category you should only see posts that have been labeled as such. When you click “Blog” it just brings up the current posts. What’s up with that? I ended up recreating each post manually and that worked better. The problem is, I still have to go back in and add the links; the cool part about blogging. I love that you can read something cool and then go right to the source and find out more if you choose to.

Another set back was the discovery that I couldn’t imbed Google Video (video.google.com) in my posts without breaking the page structure. Late last night I found a plug-in that worked around that issue, but it didn’t work after an hour of troubleshooting. If I’m insane enough I’ll stay up after this post to try and get it working. I hope I don’t make that choice. I’m really tired!