Some (a few here and there) spam bots have been leaving comments lately... good thing that there was already a reCAPTCHA plugin available for nucleusCMS: had I known that earlier, I would have switched over earlier!
*sheesh*
bonus: one nagging/back-of-the-head item knocked off the list early in the new year...
So. The last time I migrated the blog, I got about 1/2 the job done. I liked Nucleus CMS (which I used for Dad's blog), and got that set up, but I wanted tagging, rather than categories, and just never had time to get the plugins I could find that would do that working quite right.
But now, I have it! I (heavily!) refactored some plugins created by other people: i.e. I cut out just what I needed, and simplified from the "everything and the kitchen sink" to as bare bones as I could get. And it all works now. Shiny!
I really do like Nucleus as a blog engine thing: I've yet to find anything I couldn't make it do using plugins-- with every other bit of blog software I've played with, I've had to hack the source, which made upgrading a royal pain. I still haven't brought in a markup language like textile or markdown-- when I migrated from textpattern (which was migrated from MT), I just pulled the HTML version of the posts into the table. From a migration point of view, this makes sense, as the full HTML is the only thing that doesn't change (it's a pain to go back and edit, but how often to you edit really old posts? like never!). I'm confident that a plugin can do what it has to (maintain the textile/markdown in a different table than the entry), it's just a matter of getting to it.. *sigh*
I just read/skimmed Naughty or Nice? CSS Background Images [http://24ways.org/]. Now this is an old post (2005), and I don't remember how I stumbled on it, but the post makes a good point - don't stick in CSS what should be delivered via content.
I always try (with mixed success, I admit - it depends on how much control I have) to load my pages in lynx or some other text based browser to make sure I can still get around. I increasingly find sites that are not navigable sans full-graphical-browser tricks.
