Malik
(10/22/12)
I feel like I've been
two-timing myself with myself. Off and on over the last few years,
I've mentioned sprucing up this site. Each time, I'll give a shot to
some sort of PHP system and just give up when I realize that
migration is out of the picture and that many of the PHP or wiki
systems are just a pain in the ass to get used to. I mean I am still
rocking this site with the ancient Microsoft FrontPage 2003 editor
with some flash menus and almost no media (it's in there if you dig
really deep and go to a time long ago).
Two of my friends
started doing a podcast recently and asked for some feedback. I
liked it, besides a few small technical issues (microphones went
through changes to eliminate it sounding like it was recorded in a
broom closet), and thought it would be fun to see if they wanted
some involvement. I had the web space (Web Hosting Hub gives a good
service for cheap; I fully recommend them to anyone in need of a
domain host and server) and I have a domain, so I naturally was
asked to host. That's easy enough, but this meant I'd need to do
some web site work and it should not, despite the podcast being
about retro games, feel like a retro site. Old games are good, but
old HTML is getting pretty old.
I should add at this
point, I'm not sure about an overhaul here, yet. However, I'm
getting pretty comfortable with what can be done, and what cannot be
done, on systems such as Joomla, PHP-Nuke, and Tikiwiki. In the end,
Tikiwiki was what I liked for podcast hosting (larger file uploads
in particular) and had a system that allowed for the most
customization without potential of system crash (I made a Joomla
page with a free template I found online and it permanently
destroyed the page). So, maybe in the future, the old info will be
still available in this formant, and Geek-Asylum will make new posts
and such in a Tikiwiki environment.
On top of hosting the
podcast, I'm also involved in the podcast. It's fun to realize how
one can get so flustered, at first, with recording what is
essentially a conversation between some long time friends. I mean
the others in the podcast are two friends I've known over three
different decades. Wow, that makes me sound old. I've known them
since the end of the 1990's (1998 and 1999).
So, for today, I'm
wrapping up this post. Consider this a story about what PHP and wiki
systems can be most friendly to a guy still stuck in the days of
HTML 3 (is Frontpage 2003 HTML 3? Doesn't matter...definitely not
HTML 4 or 5). Also, if anyone wants to check it out, using a plug
for my two-timing ways, check out the one and only
Infinite
Lives Podcast. Proud partner of Geek-Asylum.com. I should add, a
new domain should be in the future for Infinite Lives Podcast, but
still will be part of my Web Hosting Hub service. Also, in the near
future, as I learn this wacky idea of rss feeds and XML programming,
the podcast should find its way to iTunes and other podcast
obtaining apps/programs.
Malik |