I decided it was time for a redesign.

Take a look

My new redesign

Posted by: Tom Jefferson at 04:55 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm getting funky smilies instead of my quiz pic! Pixy can you help me?
What did I do wrong? It comes out right on the preview, but then I go to the site and it is all wrong.

thanks in advance.

Posted by: Rachel Ann at 04:38 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

OK. I have completed the majority of my site make-over -- so what do ya'll think 'bout it? It is mean, lean and puts the content right up on top. Uh, Jim, I would like to know how to get those link list openers like you have on Snooze Button Dreams. Any chance ya can share a bit of the magic behind that trick with me? Read My Lips. Jes' have a look and let me know if ya like what ya see?

Posted by: Tiger at 05:33 AM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I like the layout a lot but the font on the sidebar is a little on the small side. It might be just me, but the Sepia coloured font is a little tough on my eyes.

Otherwise it looks great!

Posted by: Gir @ at December 15, 2004 06:36 AM

2 Gir has a point. Contrast, contrast, contrast! Black on white - or as close to it as you can get - for the body text; save colours and other fancy tricks for the headings and other miscellany.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 15, 2004 06:51 AM

3 It's definitely cleaner and easier to read than it was a while back. I third the text size and color though. That said, white isn't always the best contrast color. I used to have a link to a contrast calculator but I can't find the bloody thing. Do a Google search and you'll probably find it. Change your background to the best contrast for your font and you might not need to change the font color. Then again if it pops up lime green as the contrast color you just might want to forget about it.

The collapsable list instructions and download are over here.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 15, 2004 01:28 PM

4 Just one quick point regarding the openers. If you are prepared to do a little work then the Scripty Godess Show Hide Anything Script is a better alternative if only becasue it is x browser compatible. That's what I currently use on my site (www.xset.co.uk) and it suits me very nicely. Of course you need to be running a PHP site and yours is currently HTML but that's a simple enough change.

Posted by: Rob @ at December 20, 2004 06:06 PM

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The pop-up commenting at my site just took a dive. I get this message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi/splorp.cgi on this server.

What's the deal?

Posted by: Rusty at 09:00 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

We already know he's amazing, but the rest of the blogosphere has finally taken note. Pixy's Ambient Irony has blasted all the way up to #3 on TTLB's Ecosystem, ranking just behind Daily Kos and ahead of Little Green Footballs!

Geez, if that's what upgrading to MT 3 does for ya... we should all get our requests in poste-haste. Line forms right here behind me.

Enjoy it while it lasts, oh Great One.

Posted by: PaulT at 05:15 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

With Pixy adding the cool new "Another Mu.nu blog" logo to his front page (and I'll be soon to follow), I wanted to note this other idea I've had about the Mu.nu community and promotion.

Is it posible to get a sort of automated "Latest headlines" thing featuring all of the Munu blogs? Something like the Headline Animator provided byFeedburner. We could all put in on our frontpages and get the word out about all the other awesome blogs in our community. Anyway, it'd be nice...

P.S. Is it me or does Safari hate these helpful "URL" and "B" buttons on the post entry page?

Posted by: Daniel at 03:45 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've upgraded my blog to MT3. It seems to work. I still have to pound on the templates a bit, but when is that not the case?

The only thing it doesn't do (yet) is update the "New on MuNu" list here. I'll fix that soon.

If anyone else is interested in upgrading, just say the word.*

* "Retromingent".

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:34 AM | Comments (25) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Sure, I would like to give it a try. I am goin' for a new look anyway, so might as well do it now, right?

Posted by: Tig @ at December 13, 2004 06:49 AM

2 Yep. The only hard thing about moving to MT3 is that some of the template tags have changed, so your old layout might not work. Other than that, it's really easy.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2004 07:38 AM

3 But you have to say the word!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2004 07:40 AM

4 I'm scared. I recall something about you and Rob having to do something spooky to get my skins to work. Something to make .html files act like .php files?

I'm afraid of what I'll break when I move up.

Oh, but I DO SO want to move up.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 13, 2004 02:31 PM

5 If we just change your .html files to be .php files, then there'd be no problem!

In fact, there's no problem anyway, as that's configured for your domain rather than tied to your blog. If that makes sense...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2004 02:35 PM

6 But you have to say the word!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2004 02:35 PM

7 I'd like to muve and I'm saying the word: "retromingent!"

Posted by: Daniel @ at December 13, 2004 03:40 PM

8 Daniel wins a prize!

I'll get all of you set up tonight.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 14, 2004 02:21 AM

9 Hey, i'd like to give it a try. Is it possible to mess around on a practice site first?

Posted by: annika @ at December 14, 2004 04:19 AM

10 Set me up!

Heck, I might need to start from scratch again, anyway.

Posted by: Tig @ at December 14, 2004 04:57 AM

11 I'll get you all set up with test blogs now, and you can go live when you are ready.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 14, 2004 12:48 PM

12 Retromingent all around! For King of the Blogs and Speiro to sir, if you please.

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at December 14, 2004 04:28 PM

13 "Open Retromingent!"

Posted by: Tig @ at December 14, 2004 06:27 PM

14 I noticed no-one has said "Retromingent please". Us Australians are so polite.

Can I test it out please oh great Pixy...

Posted by: Simon @ at December 15, 2004 06:25 AM

15 Retromingent here too. Please.

Posted by: Rachel Ann @ at December 15, 2004 01:40 PM

16 Ummmm. Retromingent. Please.

I was planning to scrap the look altogether so this might be a good time.

Posted by: Ozguru @ at December 17, 2004 01:58 AM

17 I had to look up "retromingent"...can't wait to drop it into conversation. Besides here, I mean.

So Pixy, is there a place I can do a test MT3, so I can make sure my templates work before I try to move up?

Thank you so much, and happy holidays!

Posted by: Nic @ at December 23, 2004 05:13 PM

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Anyone know where I can find some really simple two and three column templates, with basic color schemes, not graphically intensive?

OK, I finally figured it out. All I really needed to do was delete the banner div out of the template to do what I wanted. I am doin' my testin' on Beyond the Black Hole, since that blog is kinda dead for right now. Check it out and let me know what ya think. All the stuff in the column will be changed eventually.

Posted by: Tiger at 02:29 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

For those two or three of us who still like to manually keep our munu blogroll updated, here are the 10 most recent conquered converted Munuvians:

The Lyrics of Life in LA

Wolfgang von Skeptik

King of the Blogs!

Delftsman

Boudicca's Voice

Inblognito

Cake Eater Chronicles

Bloviating Inanities

Winter Songs

Blown Fuse

Update yer blogroll, pay a welcoming visit, and smile at my Christmas cap!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at 01:32 AM | Comments (34) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I've updated the php include files with this information, so it should show the new entries when you reload you pages... if you are using the php includes and it doesn't work, let me know and I'll get it fixed.

Thank you for your efforts, Mr Spork!!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 13, 2004 02:24 AM

2 Pamibe is missing from your list... or maybe I'm just having an acid flashback???? I'm freaking out ahhhggggggg!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at December 13, 2004 02:32 AM

3 Pammie is a Munuvian?! Get! Out!

I constructed the list by pretty much copy/pasting the tail end of Susie's MuNu blogroll since our exalted leader seems to have more pressing things to do than to constantly yammer on about whom the new Munuvians are.

If Pam isn't on my list then it's because she isn't on Susie's auto-php list, I suspect. I dunno. Figure out why Susie doesn't have her listed and then y'can ask me why I don't have her listed! ;P

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 13, 2004 02:52 AM

4 Doh!

I completely forgot about Pamibe!

Probably because she's been so little trouble.

Fixed.

Oh, and Spork, I'll give you access to the new automated blogroll system.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2004 04:13 AM

5 Automated shmautomated. I don't care about lists, php, moths or any other automata. I care about Munuvians. In my book, each Munuby deserves a welcome worthy of our own!

Just a simple announcement will do. It doesn't have to be a fanfare, but let's welcome them so's at least we'll know they're frickin' there.

My Blogroll can eat my dust for all I care. I just wanna know when others join so's we all can a: welcome them; and, more importantly, b: know that they exist. Having them sitting on our blogroll means nothing if we never look for new names out of nowhere on our blogroll.

Every Munuvian deserves a Welcome Party. That's all I'm sayin'...

Well, that and slow-dancing to Beast of Burden is magic. But, nevermind...

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 13, 2004 05:26 AM

6 Yeah, but spotting new moos when they appear is half the fun! Why spoil that with something as prosaic as an announcement?

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2004 05:36 AM

7 Err, there.

I'll bake a cake.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 13, 2004 05:37 AM

8 I like cake.

Thanks, Tuning Spork. I agree about the welcome wagon. Its part of what makes this a community, I suppose, instead of just a collection of writers.

Posted by: RP @ at December 14, 2004 12:26 PM

9 I tried using the php code and ended up with a big blank space, so I went back to the javascript list. Might anyone have time to update the javascript, or am I the only one still using it?
Many thanks!

Posted by: Nic @ at December 15, 2004 09:20 PM

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The 2004 Weblog Awards polls are open and many Munuvians (and Munuviana itself) are finalists in the polls. You can vote in each poll once per day. The following list contains the Munu blogs that made the final cut. The CAPITALIZED AND ITALICIZED lines are links to the individual poll and those are followed by links to the Munu blog(s) in that contest.

Note: It's possible that I've missed a couple. I parsed for websites at "mu.nu". If there are Munus in the polls that I overlooked because they have their own domains please comment here and I'll update the list.

BEST NEW BLOG
My Pet Jawa

BEST CONSERVATIVE BLOG
Ramblings Journal

BEST CULTURE BLOG
Llama Butchers

BEST ONLINE COMMUNITY
Munuviana

BEST BLOG DESIGN
Little Miss Attila

BEST ESSAYIST
Wolfgang von Skeptik

BEST CANADIAN BLOG
Being American in T.O.

BEST ASIAN BLOG
Simon World

BEST AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND BLOG
Ambient Irony
DramaQueen

BEST OF THE TOP 100 BLOGS
Ace of Spades HQ

BEST OF THE TOP 100 - 250 BLOGS
Bad Example
Patriot Paradox

BEST OF THE TOP 250 - 500 BLOGS
Physics Geek

BEST OF THE TOP 500 - 1000 BLOGS
Brain Fertilizer
The Flying Space Monkey
Snooze Button Dreams

BEST OF THE TOP 1000 - 1750 BLOGS
Everyday Stranger

BEST OF THE TOP 1750 - 2500 BLOGS
Anticipatory Retaliation
Ravings of a Corporate Mommy

BEST OF THE TOP 5000 - 6750 BLOGS
Ilyka Damen

(PS - Do yourself a favor. While you're there voting take a look at some new blogs. These are some of the best out there.)

Posted by: Jim at 06:17 PM | Comments (22) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 You missed me in the BEST OF THE TOP 100 - 250 BLOGS with Bad Example

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at December 02, 2004 09:27 PM

2 Thanks for the list, Jim! Good thing you can vote more than once.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 02, 2004 09:28 PM

3 Nick, that's because you have one of those silly .com addresses!

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 02, 2004 09:28 PM

4 Darn me!

Posted by: Nick Queen @ at December 02, 2004 09:36 PM

5 Seems ever'one missed me when it came to nominations. What gives?

Posted by: Tig @ at December 02, 2004 10:44 PM

6 All fixed, Nick.

Tig - Don't feel put out. Shi-loads of blogs didn't get nominated.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 03, 2004 12:21 AM

7 Congrats everyone! Congrats Pixy, you insane, magical, amazing, generous, blog-making overlord for hosting such an amazing community.

My only shock in these nominations is that not every single munuvian isn't on the list. If I'd have known about these (Damn my newbie ignorant ass) I would have spent all night if necessary making sure that justice was done.

And you, Jim - thank you so much for nominating me. I look at the company I'm in and know for sure, I didn't deserve it.

Posted by: Elizabeth @ at December 03, 2004 12:35 AM

8 All right, who's not keeping the Munuviana list up to date? I didn't even know a few of these existed. As much as the alphabetic list makes sense, it doesn't make it easy to see who the new folks are.

Posted by: Ted @ at December 03, 2004 12:59 AM

9 There's a chronological listing too. The one here on Munuviana is that type.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 03, 2004 02:39 AM

10 Oops. I mean the one here on Munuviana used to be that type. Um...help?

Posted by: Jim @ at December 03, 2004 02:42 AM

11 Yeah, I think I might one of the very few that actually have Wolgang Von Skeptik and Kirsten (aka, mermaid) of Lyrics of Life in LA blogrolled.

Pixy! Updated chronological list, por favor!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 03, 2004 04:10 AM

12 Uh, yeah. I suck.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 03, 2004 04:20 AM

13 Actually, Tig, you might have got nominated. It says:

Several thousand blogs were nominated. Of the hundreds nominated in each category there's at most 15 up for voting. The finalists picked were a set of the best of those nominated, in my subjective opinion.

C'est la blog.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 03, 2004 05:50 AM

14 Knock it off with the "I suck" comments, Pixy. I blame Stephen!

Posted by: Ted @ at December 03, 2004 11:33 AM

15 Pixy is right - there were many more nominations than finalists. As someone who helped sort a few of the sections I have to tell you it was really hard to arrange (and Tig wasn't in any sections I worked on). We had to cull the list down to 20 from the nominations and from other sources when the representation wasn't broad enough. The lists were 20 to allow for some overlap culling which left 15 or so. Kevin then went through and fine tuned everything - the amount of effort he put into the process was absolutely incredible.

Posted by: Ozguru @ at December 03, 2004 11:39 AM

16 You can read all about the process (and the pain) here.

Posted by: Ozguru @ at December 03, 2004 07:42 PM

17 We are all over that awards program like stink on a Michael Moore movie.

Posted by: spacemonkey @ at December 06, 2004 05:59 PM

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:28 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Cool!

Posted by: Tuning Spork @ at December 11, 2004 06:35 PM

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Now on King of the Blogs: The KOTB Odds Contest!

The details:

They are competing for the crown. You can predict who will win.

Each week you can get odds on the latest King of the Blog tournament. If you are closest to the results you get a free ad here for the next tournament. To do so just fill out the form to the right, and send it our way. Remember the most any one blog can score is 51. With the results we need the final roster from one to 3 and your prediction of the final scores. Good Luck.

Current Contestants:

I Hate My Cubicle

illogicology

View From the Pew

Be sure to include all contestants in your odds. Have an ad ready in case you win!

Also all Munuvians are invited to compete in King of the Blogs, so go by and sign up!

Posted by: Nick Queen at 06:43 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm trying to show several images across the screen rather than as a single file column down the screen. I have 3 images that I'd like to butt up against each other(they fit) across the blog post. Unfortunately, I cannot get it to function properly. The "< img src= >" codes are all sequential and contiguous, and they are embedded within "< p" " / p>" codes. Any suggestions? I've even tried copying/pasting the HTML created using a WYSIWYG editor, but to no avail.

Posted by: Physics Geek at 04:16 PM | Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I'm trying to get people to believe again. I want peope to have hope and faith in Santa. So if you could help raise the roof on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm not trying to idly plug my site, I just know that a lot of people are down this year about the holidays.

My entry is this:

http://everydaystranger.mu.nu/archives/058373.php

I have a cute graphic I hope people can add to their sites, only I am crap at creating a code and listing it on my site so that other people can just copy and paste into their sidebar, so if anyone can help there too, that would be appreciated.

And if you can help and help me create a code the people can just cut and paste based on this picture, then just leave it in the comments, as I can't access my email today. It would be great it the picture, when clicked, would link to my blog post about trying to believe in Santa, but if it can't it's no biggie. I just want to bring Santa back, that's all.

Thanks.

Helen

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 09:15 AM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I tried out Expression Engine for my blog for a couple of days, and ran into some problems that would pretty much prevent us using it. I asked about it on the PMachine forums, and, along with some helpful advice, they pointed out that the license terms say that you can't use it to run a blogging service, and that mu.nu looks a lot like a blogging service.

So scratch EE. I'm taking another look at Minx right now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:24 AM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

So, was I the only one that could not seem to get into munu so as to post somethin' new here over this last hour or so? I lost a really long link laden post which lagged so long on the send out, I thought the program was locked and ended it. I didn't know that our server picked that very moment to start actin' up. Sheesh, and I worked several hours on that post, but deleted all the links, one by one, as I completed my composition of each section. Don't ya jes' hate that?

Posted by: Tiger at 12:27 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

This is for the Physics Geek, whose comments seem to be broken, and whose blog doesn't contain an email address.

To make your ASCII text items display correctly, try using the "code" tags (i.e., <code>, </code> before and after the segments you want to be fixed-width. There might be a more elegant (or HTML-valid) solution, but this is the one that comes quickly to mind.

Hope it works!

P.S. Please consider putting an email address on your main page (use an image if you want to avoid spam bots).

Posted by: JohnL at 08:44 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've attempted to post several ASCII text items on my blog, but I'm having trouble with the spacing. For example:

*::space::::space::::space::*

displays as this:

**

My assumption is that there is some setting in my style sheet that I need to adjust to allow me to type in text without having blank spaces ignored. Anyone know the cure? Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Physics Geek at 08:10 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I've jumped ship for Expression Engine.

Actually, this is just an excuse to ping myself and see what happens.

Update: Nothing! Absolutely nothing! So stupid!

Update: Manual ping works. Of course, it doesn't show up, because I have template caching turned on, because if I don't have template caching on it's appallingly slow, so I have to clear the cache just to see my trackback. Bah.

Update: Don't mind me.

Update: I'm not even here.

Update: Bingo! The RDF data disagreed with the permalink in the default template. You'd think someone would have noticed that by now.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:12 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Something wrong with the server? I keep getting "File 404-Forbidden Access" when I try to open my own comments.

I know I can get racy, but surely not that racy.

Posted by: Everydaystranger at 12:38 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)