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Clean and Simple (The Scope Creep Problem)

by Matthew Smith · August 7th, 2006 · No Comments

While I recently finished up my first K2 style modification (and I’m not too disappointed with it), I believe that not only can I do better, but K2 feels a little “bloated” with a bunch of extra “features” that I don’t use. In addition, I’ve slowly been accumulating more and more plugins to provide other [...]

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Server Trouble

by Matthew Smith · July 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

I apologize if you were unable to reach the site yesterday - it seems that my server was having a bit of trouble, apparently caused by a faulty motherboard. I’m up and running on fresh hardware, so all should be good now!

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digivation.net - now no-www compliant

by Matthew Smith · June 13th, 2006 · No Comments

I am happy to report that digivation.net is now no-www compliant, thanks to Matt’s handy new Wordpress plugin that makes this far too easy (I seriously resent not playing with my .htaccess file). What exactly is “no-www compliance” you ask?
No-www.org philosophy
No-www.org strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To [...]

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Theme Changes

by Matthew Smith · June 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Since I have been procrastinating so horridly on updating the site with a truly unique style, I felt it was necessary to replace that boring blue bar with a somewhat interesting image. Hope you enjoy - I will try to rotate the images around a little bit (and maybe automate this eventually).

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What’s Going On??

by Matthew Smith · April 27th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m investigating K2.
What happened to creating my own design, you ask? Well, upon reviewing the long wishlist that I had formulated for my own theme, I happened to be browsing the K2 feature list and noticed that many things I wanted to accomplish with my theme are already implemented in K2! In addition to that, [...]

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Layout Progress

by Matthew Smith · April 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Contrary to popular opinion, I have not yet forgotten, given up on, or otherwise abandoned my dreams of creating a custom digivation template to adorn these lonely posts. Indeed, I’m actually working on it today (seeing as how I actually have a little free time for the first time in weeks). Hang around for updates; [...]

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WordPress Widgets

by Matthew Smith · April 5th, 2006 · No Comments

A cool new feature for WordPress - the sidebar Widget. Distributed as an easy to install plugin for WordPress, these spiffy new gadgets provide easy customization of the sidebar (that thing with links to site sections, login, registration, etc). Prior to the release of the Widget plugin, sidebar customization involved hand editing of the current [...]

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Still Busy

by Matthew Smith · April 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Yes, dear readers, I’m still desperately busy. I will post eventually… for now, check out Dave’s blog, listen to some music, chill, then head over to mandolux for some nice wallpapers. Afterwards, a nice tall glass of water and a short run should be just the ticket. The only real thing I have to report [...]

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