Part of my motivation for finally upgrading this site to the latest version of Movable Type was to allow comments to once again be possible. Among other problems, the comment spam handling was limited, so real comments were getting lost in the noise. With the upgrade complete, I think I’ve got it set correctly to take anonymous comments that don’t... (Read More)
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The code and design for this site have pretty stagnant for the last two years. Everything was functional, but the design was old and needed some serious improvement. With the recent release of MovableType 4.1, I decided to put some time into this and get it upgraded. Many hours later, it's done! I spent lots of time on this --... (Read More)
Earlier I wrote about the apparent lack of website traffic during Super Bowl commercials, but on this site at least, writing about Super Bowl commercials causes a huge (10-fold) jump in traffic (click for larger image):... (Read More)
Just upgraded this site to Movable Type 3.36 following the recent security advisory. Upgrade process was smooth and all seems well at this point. I'm still working on upgrading everything to the latest version 4 -- just need to dedicate some time to sit down and finish it. Once I get upgraded to version 4, I can start allowing OpenID... (Read More)
My hosting provider provides built-in support for two different web log analysis packages: Analog and Webalizer. I’ve tried both of them, but neither gave me very good control over the data, so I decided to switch to AWStats which seems to be fairly popular. At first the installation steps were kind of painful, seeming to focus on an installation where... (Read More)
After playing with the beta build on a couple of systems, I finally updated this site to the new Movable Type 3.2 release. It was a little more complicated that I had hoped, but I was being extra careful and tried running in a “staging” location first. I started down the path of creating a brand new instance to get... (Read More)
I finally got around to upgrading this site from MovableType 2.66 to 3.11 (the latest). I wanted to upgrade just to get the latest plugins and to explore the new capabilities. Plus it gave me an excuse to back up my site which I’ve done only sporadically. With improved handling for comments, I might turn them back on. In fact,... (Read More)
I've been using my .htaccess file to deny access to certain IP addresses and address ranges. Yesterday while adding a couple of entries, I mistakenly left a line consisting of only "Deny From". I didn't catch it at the time but noticed later in the day that the entire www.cantoni.org domain was not responding. I assumed it was a problem... (Read More)
From Scribbling.net comes a useful article called Help the Googlebot understand your web site which lists about a dozen tips for structuring your site for the best experience with the Google indexing software (Googlebot). Cantoni.org already handles most of these suggestions except for the additiona meta robots tag which should cause it to not index my main page which is... (Read More)
I just added an Atom 0.3 feed to this site (in addition to the RSS 2.0 feed which I'll keep as well). Following the example template from Mark Pilgrim, it was quite simple. The template uses a couple of MovableType plugins (UTCDate and MTEntryModified, both from Staggernation.com). For now, I didn't take the additional step of serving the file up... (Read More)
