Wesley's Tool-Box

In the old Tool-Box website, I had LinkExchange ads placed. That was sort of okay, but it didn't do much and was pain to manage. So in this new Tool-Box website, I'm trying Google ads. I'm hoping this one's better.

I'm trying two types of shapes here. Since the main page is long, I put a tall banner on the right. In each of the entry page, it's not typically as long, so I put a wide banner on the top.

Serendipity does not support 'top' or 'bottom' sidebar, so I made a plug-in so that you can put HTML nuggets on the top of the entry page. I call it HTML Nugget on Page Top plug-in. It should appear on the SourceForge CVS as serendipity_event_topnugget soon. This plug-in enabled me to put the banner ad as an HTML nugget so it appears on the top of an entry.

I have edited the MySQL, phpBB, and s9y installation method slightly to reflect a more secure way of doing it.

Okay, I think it confuses the heck out of many people to have the 'Choose Language' sidebar showing... 23 language options. So what did I do? Modify the plugin so I can choose what language to show on the dropdown box.

Box on the left (click for larger image) shows how it looks like from the admin screen. Since this blog is currently written in English and Korean only, I disabled all the other languages from selection. I may re-enable other languages if I get motivated enough to write in other languages, such as Japanese.

I have the plugin modification (now version 1.3) committed to the Sourceforge CVS. It takes a while before it shows up on the web, so come back later if the plugin is still version 1.2.

After giving some thoughts, I bit the bullet and instead of using that 'wes.mine.nu' as the base domain of the website and having 'Tool-Box.info' redirecting to it, the 'Tool-Box.info' is now the base domain itself. This service cost some money, but I thought it would be worth the trouble.

What happens at the moment is that http://wes.mine.nu/ and http://tool-box.info/ both connects to the same location. However, I had previously configured http://tool-box.info/ to redirect to http://wes.mine.nu/blog/ which goes to the blog site (yes, this place). http://wes.mine.nu/ had a test page set up that I had created in a minute to test out the DDNS connection and it didn't make any sense anymore. So basically, you would need to connect to http://tool-box.info/blog/ to see this place instead of http://tool-box.info/ because you would end up with the test page instead.

But that doesn't look as good as before, right?

Since I'm too lazy to set up a new 'front page' for the site, I have now configured the server so that connecting to http://tool-box.info/ will be exactly like connecting to http://tool-box.info/blog/ .

You don't have to remember a new URL. Yay!

Now, I will be deprecating the 'wes.mine.nu' domain in a few days, so if you had any URL linked from my site, now is the time to update to the 'tool-box.info' domain.

Static page plugin on my blog was having problems... seems to be fixed now. Sorry for the minor inconvenience while I was trying various settings to try overcome it.