Alin's Site

New Google Search Box Interface

Remember those little annoying blue boxes I had all over my old website? They are not coming back to this website, I have something much better. The Google search box whenever you search for something on my site or on the entire internet will spew a few ads on the results page that also fit your search criteria. This is a much less obtrusive way of possibly making a little extra money here and there and also giving you guys the luxury of having the ability to search the internet and my website right from my website! Like every single other thing on the website the Google box also has the statistics tracking code implemented, which will allow me to see how many people are using it. I hope the Google box becomes a positive component to all of you’re browsing experiences!

It appears that when I installed the Google Analytics system that I may have involuntarily caused a small bug in the code on the sidebar. This code error has been fixed and you should not see anything like shown above.

If any of you see any other bugs please contact me via the new Contact Me page. Make sure to select bug report in the drop down box. Those of you interested in helping me add more things to the subject dropdown box please drop a line by setting it to Suggestions.

• Left picture: Buggy sidebar
• Right picture: New Contact Me form

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I told you all that I would get a list of some of the new features on the new website out to you all today. Here it is,

Front end updates


• Totally fresh new aluminum design
• Sidebar contains Paypal, Google, Talkshoe, iTunes podcast subscriber, FeedBurner subscriber.
• Sidebar is available on all pages aside from Photos and Forum
• About Me page has custom sidebar
• Photos page no longer goes to .Mac gallery. All photos are now residing on the sherver and utilize Gallery. You can get Gallery for your own site at http://gallery.menalto.com
• DisabledPlanet.Net forum is easily accessible through this website and continues to preserve the aluminum look and feel.
• New site has no javascript navigation bars which makes it much more GoogleBot friendly
• Images have ALT tags allowing screen readers and GoogleBot to recognize them as content
• Google Analytics tracking for stats (launched today at 12:30 PM CST) This will take place of the visitor counters. I will blog about statistics monthly on the 29th

Back end updates
• Fast FTP uploading framework
• Upload only changed pages (like iWeb)
• Full WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface (like iWeb)
• PHP back end on a lot of things (Affects client users by reducing the work their computer does)
• Less space on my hard drive required for the RapidWeaver program 151.83 MB for iWeb Vs. 50.00 MB for RapidWeaver
• More customizability and instantly changable site theme’s
• Google Analytics tracking for stats (launched today at 12:30 PM CST)

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The entire website has been completely revamped. All of it took only about 52 hours of work, reason it took such little time is because my sleep is so screwed up I decided I would work on it late into the nights. All blog posts containing photo gallery links have been rerouted to the gallery that is built into this website! The transition is officially totally complete. There is absolutely nothing left behind on the .Mac server. I would outline all the new features of the new website, but I am a bit fried since it is 2:00 AM in the morning. I will get a features list up when I wake up. For now you can dig through the website and find the new features for yourself.

RapidWeaver Logo

For now we are going to continue to use the site that was designed in iWeb. But it takes a long time for it to publish via FTP and is not going to be efficient in the long run. Hence I have picked RapidWeaver to develop the new 2.0 site in, it will not be done for a while so do not worry! By using RapidWeaver we will also increase GoogleBot compatability which will make my website more visible to the general internet! RapidWeaver will also make the site more easy to use and appealing to the eye. Google AdSense will NOT be on the new website. No blog posts or anything will be lost, that is why this redesign is going to take so long!

Fireworks! Site now on Sherver!

If you are reading this then you are successfully connecting to the sherver! The main website is now hosted on the sherver. The site has been deleted from the .Mac server. Photo galleries will continue to be hosted on .Mac, Google may have problems for a while with the sudden drop from the other server. The reason Google will probably have problems is due to the dirty redirect method that I am using to get the domain routing to work. Hopefully nothing will become severely broken due to the dirty redirects, I will be notifying google of the switch via the Google Webmaster Tools system. Hopefully that will allow google to fix that up.

Safari cannot find www.alinssite.info

The transfer attempt has failed due to some unknown reason. The site has been restored back to its original function on the .Mac hosting system. It is unknown if I caused this transfer failure. The transfer failure occured within the domain routing for the http://www.www.alinssite.info domain. There is an exact duplicate of this website already running on the sherver at http://www.alinssite.info the issue is I need to figure out how to get the domain routings correct. I will figure it out one of these days. But the site is back up and running luckily. I have decided that i will create a new variable on the domain name www2.www.alinssite.info for experimentation. This site will always be accessible with www.www.alinssite.info hopefully I can figure out what is going on with these wonky domains. I am going to go to sleep now. goodnight!

Site was down from approximately, 1/25/08 10:00 PM CST until 1/26/08 2:45 AM CST

iWeb to RapidWeaver The Big Transition

The site will be compatable with the sherver. I had to make some modifications to the iWeb frameworks. Expect transition to sherver soon. The photo galleries are currently hosted on .Mac hosting and will expire in september. I will be moving the photos into galleries that are built into the website.

Forum moved to sherver

The transfer of the forum is now complete! Domain transfer will take till March 1st due to ICANN’s international registrar regulation stating that no transfer may occur until 60 days after the domain’s initial purchase. I bought the domain on January 1st so it will transfer on March 1st. The forum will be accessible using the http://disabledplanet.iguido.com subdomain until then.

PLEASE CLEAR YOUR BROWSER COOKIES AND CACHE BEFORE RETURNING TO THE FORUM… FAILURE TO DO SO MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS!!!

It now runs on the newest version of phpBB which is phpBB3. The forum used to run phpBB2

This is a sherver. A sherver is a shared server.

I have good news for all of you. Last year on september 21st we moved the website to .Mac hosting. At $100 dollars a year it is quite expensive, Add $25 dollars per year for domain name registration, and the total is $125 per year. Well, A friend of mine known as Saxline who has decided to make me the co-admin of all operations at his website. I am really happy about this as he has given me full admin rights over his dedicated server which I have now codenamed a sherver due to the fact that we are sharing it now. This means that my total cost per year will be down to $25 for web hosting needs. Transitioning will be easy, there will be no action needed on your end, the domain name will continue to be the same http://www.www.alinssite.info domain name. Though there are just a few small issues. iWeb was originally designed for the .Mac platform and some features will not be properly transitioned over to the new server. These features include blog comments and the photo gallery system. We will not be able to keep blog comments that we already have nor will we be able to allow comments on the new server. The photo gallery system will no longer be at gallery.mac.com it will be moved into internal pages within this site like the old first generation website.

The website is not moving yet!!! You will all be notified 24 hours before the move is to occur so you know to expect a few hours of downtime. The website will be moved on september 20nd, exactly one day before the .Mac hosting package expires.

As an early preparation step I have shut commenting off on the blog. Photo galleries will remain as is until early september when I kick transitioning tasks into high gear.

And for those of you techies out there here are the basic server stats.

750GB hard drive space.
7.5TB monthly bandwidth transfer
Unlimited email accounts
Unlimited sub-domains
Unlimited FTP accounts
Unlimited SQL databases
i686 architecture
Linux OS