Kakomu’s Blog

The website is at the infant stage right now and there are quite a few stages of development that need to be completed before this website is formally launched as a content creating site.

First, the blog will not be the main focus of the page. As much as I like to tell people what I think at any given moment, I’d rather produce content that people would find funny, interesting or informative on may different subjects. Thus, the main page will, more than likely, be a news page. This page will, of course, inform everyone of what I’ve posted, where I stand in posting and other such information.

Second, I will be providing content in 3 different categories:

1) The writings, which apply to any sort of article, review, tutorial or whatever that I may think of.

2) The Blog, where I can post my incessant rantings or musings

3) The book.  This is where I want to archive a book I’m thinking of writing.

With that in mind, it’s important to start thinking seriously about organization.  First of all, the blog I’m writing and you’re reading will, eventually, be wiped out and installed anew in another directory.  There’s a lot to think about regarding this site.  First of all, I need to design the look of the page.  I had one already picked out, but now I want to redesign the previous page and start adding in grays.  I also want to eliminate FREE advertising.  I pay for my domain, I coded my server and I pay the electric bill on running it.  I will NOT advertise unless they’re willing to pay me.  So, that means that I will either remove or totally obfuscate any ad in my design on Wordpress.  Finally, I need to design and code the scripting necessary for the rest of the content.

This means that I need to continue my journey and learn the fundamentals of MySQL and PHP.  Once those have been at least provisionally learned, it’s important to decide how I want the site organized.  Do I want the content to be statically created in txt or html form and allow PHP to render the headers and footers and call the static files from elsewhere?  Or do I want to store all content in an SQL database?  Both have their advantages and disadvantages.  Right now, I cannot tell.

What I do know is that I need to employ some sort of segregation between all of my data so that I can easily edit each part without affecting the rest.

Well, this has been an arduous past few hours. I decided it would be necessary to reinstall Linux on my server (which I will post pictures of later), but considering I hadn’t done that for a few months, I forgot a few of the steps.

Moreover, installation of Wordpress itself was a bitch. I hadn’t been able to install the MySQL extension for PHP and received the infamous “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.” error. Hopefully this gets on a few search engines, but when using php 5, MySQL 5, Apache 2 and Debian, I had to use the following command “apt-get install php5-mysql” to install the extension.

Now that my site is up and running, I need to work on getting my design up and running.