Amazon S3 and WordPress
As I stated in a previous post, I moved all my images, theme files, and js files over to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service or S3. The process was fairly simple with the right mixture of WordPress plugins. I’ll give you a basic guide on how I moved everything over to S3.
First things first, S3 is just storage. When creating your ‘bucket’ (we will talk about that in a bit), you select the location in which it will be stored. S3 isn’t a content delivery network (CDN), but Amazon does offer that with Cloudfront. Even though this isn’t a CDN, it will probably speed up your website as well as reduce burden on your web host, only costing you a couple cents a month (depending on your audience).
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New WordPress Theme. New Blog.
After moving to a new host, I thought it was about time to update to a new theme. I was unhappy with many of the free themes I have been seeing, and right now I don’t have the time to build my own. I have been noticing the amazing themes being created over at ThemeForest and saw one that I thought would fit perfect with what I want out of the site. Clean with great UX. I pulled the trigger and bought the Dispatch theme, which I have been thrilled with so far.
On top of launching the new theme, I’m going to really attempt to write more often. My writing is a little rusty and the only way to get better is to write more often. Expect to see articles from all types of topics and coming weekly. 2010 has been a great year so far, and hopefully the last couple months will be great as well.
Fooling around with themes
I have started to fool around with themes again. Not sure how I would like to style the site. Simple and easy to read. You might see more changes.
The Blog Once a Week Challenge
So I have been running Shinyidol.com for ages now, 2004 to be exact, but my updates are somewhat scarce. Well I am making a challenge to update once a week. Yes, I think I have said this before, but I really think it is time to push the blog for good and heal humanity of its limited voice of myself. So get your reading glasses going and get ready for more posts, more content, and more coll stuff from yours truly.
iPhone Post Test
I got an iPhone 3GS a couple of days ago and I found an application to post to my blog. So here is the test!
Theme Tweaking
As you can probably see I am tweaking the theme of the good old WordPress site. Exploring new themes and plugins to best have the info I want to display. Stay tuned.
Spring Cleaning, New Theme, and probably some broken links
I have been fooling around with various themes, wanting to change up the page a bit. I am still modifying on a local version of the site here at home, but I decided to change the theme on the live site. I have been reading Smashing Magazine a lot, which is an amazing site that everyone should check out. I have gotten some good ideas from there, and hope to use some of that great information here on the site. One of the bad thing about all these changes is links might start breaking, as well as other items. I hope to clean everything up and keep the site updated. Keep posted for updates.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.7-RC1
WordPress 2.7 RC1 has been released. The Dashboard is REALLY different. I need time to adjust.