I’ve been doing some updating to my site. First off, I’ve added support for some popular social bookmarking sites. At the bottom of each post you will see a “Share This” link. Clicking on this will give you options of bookmarking the post to your selected site. You can also email the post.

I’m now also using Google Analytics to track the flow of traffic on my site. It’s a pretty cool service, if you have a website check it out.

I’ve signed up for del.icio.us and Digg. I’ve also joined Technorati, check my Technorati Profile here.

One other thing I’ve signed up for is Feedburner.

All of these are very cool sites that help direct traffic and your web browsing experience in general. It’s worth checking these out if you’re building a blog.

Nordin

So I added a few things to the website. For one, I’ve added the glory of favicons! Favicons are the little images that appear next the the URL of your browser. “Nordin, your favicon is perhaps the cutest one I’ve ever seen” you say? Well that’s because it’s a picture of our new baby girl, Freesia!

Freesia Aaliyah Rahhali

I found a few ways to make favicons, but nothing was simpler than using this site, simply select an image on your computer, and it creates a favicon you can download from that. Shweet. If you prefer to use Photoshop, then try this site.
The other thing I added was the ability to have an email sent to notify a user when a new comment is made on a post that they’ve commented on already. This should be handy to track threads.

And lastly (and what took the most flippin’ time) was I fixed an issue with Internet Explorer, links weren’t being respected at the top, image based links. But now all seems well. Of course I never use IE only Firefox, which never had any problems with my site.

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Ok, sometimes you spend time on something that seems dumb, but you just have to figure it out! In my case it was how to make my thumbnails in my Coppermine Photo Gallery to look how I used to make them before Coppermine. They were square, with a black border. I liked the look, and lost it when I switched to cpg.

Anyways, to make a long boring story short, I wrangled with ImageMagick, discovered how to with the help of this site and modded a custom version of cpg to generate this. I’m posting this in case someone wants to know how, let me know and I’ll pass the modded files to you.