Testing out blogging with the Pre and seeing how images upload. this is Pantera.

Now with more awesome!

Using Website Grader I’ve been able to find out the following about J’s Notes:

Your website has an Alexa rank of 1,966,507 which is in the top 6.4 % of all websites.

This blog currently has a Technorati rank of 180,998, which puts it in the top 0.26% of blogs tracked by Technorati.

And a bunch of other stuff, that it’s interesting to see J’s Notes place in the internets and the blogosphere.

So I’ve accidentally “spammed” some previously approved comments and for that I apologize.  If you find that your comments aren’t showing up in a reasonable amount of time (or at all), please contact me and let me know so I can fix it.  Sorry.

J’s Notes has had a bit of design tweaking this week, going to a three column format, having the scribbles return on the sidebar, and a brand spankin’ new banner being chruned out today.  It’s all still rough and up to some changes, but bit by bit it’s turning into something that less resembles a template.  I hope.

So yesterday I started experimenting with titleless posts, which isn’t so hard to do.  Half the time the hardest part of a post is coming up with a catchy title.  But if what I’m blogging really isn’t all that long or doesn’t contain much original thought, why give it a title?

Because RSS feeds want titles, for one.

The titleless move was not only based on content but a design idea as well, one stolen from Kottke.org where the blog is a series of short posts interrupted by longer, more thorough posts and the like.  The shorter posts don’t have titles on the blog, but they do when they pop up through the RSS feed, which makes subscribing easy and the display of posts on sites like RVABlogs that much easier.  So I guess until I can figure out how to make titles not show on the blog but pop up in the RSS feed, I’ll have to keep coming up with titles.

By the way, if anyone out there has any suggestions on what I can do to fix this issue, I’m all ears.

Which leads to my brief thoughts on WordPress.  While I’ve played with WP a bit in the past, there certainly is a bit of a learning curve moving to WP and PHP from Blogger’s more or less straight HTML.  PHP will do what you tell it to do, for sure, but there are certain nuances in WP’s stuff that I’m still trying to figure out.  Which is why I’ve not only had this recent issue with posts but why I’m also still on the default template.  But I’m making tweaks here and there with the display and all.  Hopefully there will be a slick new design in the next couple weeks, but we’ll see.

So please continue to bear with me as I get the hang of this puppy.  There’s some slick stuff in here and I’m just starting to get the hang of it.

Welcome to the new home of J’s Notes.  Pardon the dust as I get settled and work on a slick new design.