Hugh Fletcher

Recently I did a half-way makeover of my site/blog that included removing the contact page that only one, count them, one person ever used. Now granted it was a guy from Microsoft I had recently met and contacted me about a job opportunity, I never the less decided to get rid of the whole contact page thing and simply put an email link in my about page.  Wanting to obfuscate it from evil email harvesters, Wordpress by default doesn’t offer a easy way of doing this within a post.  That’s where the Wordpress shortcode API and CodeIgniter come in.

In part Hugh of my series  ’How to start blogging’ I explain how to start a blog, progressively once a year change the design and then make a  post proclaiming your new change and the silly reasons you did it.  In this yearly post you should also mention apologies for not posting anything else except maybe one, and then state how you ‘plan’ on doing better.  After doing this for several years, including during all this  time change the urls to some of your pages including your RSS feed and you will successfully confuse anyone trying to follow your site. And that’s the Part Hugh of it.

Having been working with CodeIgniter for about two years now, I have always struggled with how to structure my themes. This past week I came up with what seems to be such an obvious solution for external css handling in CodeIgniter, that I was surprised I haven’t read about it elsewhere. Perhaps it’s so obvious that most felt it need not to be mentioned, however I would have loved to come across something like this long ago.