Blog redesign, episode 10

Haven’t had time to tin­ker with the new blog design for some time now, but upon yesterday’s dis­cov­ery of Favatars, it was a pleas­ant sur­prise to find a Fav­i­con MT-plugin over at Gemal’s today. I stum­bled across the idea over a year ago, but never got it to work — plu­g­ins are just right for me. I installed it on the main blog, it works like a charm and caches the images. So now, if you leave a com­ment, your fav­i­con gets grabbed and is dis­played next to your name.

On a related note, I recently put in a captcha-test on the com­ment pages; I’ve been hit hard by com­ment spam­mers lately — they made a big mess and my host started send­ing wor­ried emails. Not good. So far it seems to work — if you expe­ri­ence any prob­lems when leav­ing com­ments, please let me know.

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10 Responses to Blog redesign, episode 10

  1. Michel says:

    Sorry. I don’t have any­thing clever to say, just wanted to test the fav­i­con plu­gin. By the way, what’s with the background-image?

  2. Michel says:

    No at the time, when I wrote the pre­vi­ous com­ment — some bitmap went wrong. Now I have, though. What goes for the back­ground, I sure hope you get some sort of rev­enue, from this ;-)

  3. Michel says:

    Any expla­na­tion why it still doesn’t fetch my fav­i­con? It works fine on my pages.

  4. pollas says:

    I haven’t read the fine print, but maybe you got ‘banned’, mean­ing that once the sys­tem fig­ured out you didn’t have a fav­i­con, it didn’t want to try again — and retries in a week or so? I don’t know, really ;-)

  5. pollas says:

    Just checked your site: What hap­pens if you add the link rel=“shortcut icon” bit to your header? It should check the file in the root of your web­server first, but maybe you got some .htac­cess going on?

  6. Michel says:

    I’ve tried writ­ing www. infront of my URL this time, to see if it can bypass a pos­si­ble cookie.

    It should by default check for a favicon.ico in the root, to begin with, but if it isn’t so, then; theres the explanation ;-)

    I’ll try adding a metatag, when I get outta here.

    On a side­note, I can tell you, that my info wasn’t remem­bered by your cookie, while vis­it­ing and com­ment­ing from home.

  7. Michel says:

    Aaand here we go. the www did the trick. By the way, what engine are you using, and do you have any idea if this plu­gin can be invoked in pMa­chine? It’s quite nifty, when you come to think of it :)

    Still doesn’t remem­ber my infor­ma­tion (name, url). So this prob­lem per­sists, even though I’ve moved from my XP/Firefox1 at home to Win2000/IE5 at work.

  8. pollas says:

    Nice1. I’ll have to inves­ti­gate fur­ther how this thing works. The cookie-bit is prob­a­bly caused by some fuckup while I’ve been exper­i­ment­ing with new fea­tures — I’ll fix that some day.

    I found this thing yes­ter­day, it does the same thing but is pure php: http://www.peej.co.uk/projects/favatars.html

  9. Michel says:

    Thanks, mate. I’ll give it a go, over at the boomerang later today, to see how it mucks up with my exist­ing setup.