Mike Little’s Journalized

Akismet has caught 2,000,190 spam for you since you first installed it.

Two million is a ridiculous number of spam comments on my little ol’ blog.

I can’t imagine it will get any better, either.

I have to be thankful for Akismet. If you get a lot of spam comments, that you no longer have to deal with because Akismet protects you from them , please consider paying for at least a pro-blogger subscription. It’s well worth the money.

The new web site for my daughter’s school, St Bede’s College has finally gone live today. This is great news! It is a much better looking replacement for their old site and will give a much needed boost to their on-line presence.

Of course, it is built completely on WordPress, with a ton of plugins, a couple of custom widgets, an original design by an ex pupil, and a fairly sophisticated theme by me. I’ll give more details shortly. It should look OK in most browsers. I’d appreciate a comment if anyone spots any major breakage.

The hardest part (or at least the part that took me the most time) was converting their old pages which were written as old-school 90’s stylee static pages — chock full of presentational HTML — into Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) ones. As far as I can tell every page nowvalidates as XHTML 1.0 strict.

The small team of staff members who have helped me design the architecture of the site, up date the content, and add new stuff, have done a marvellous job. Especially whilst coping with all that goes on at the beginning of a new school year.

Go check it out.

HappyBirthday Steve

Lots of Love Mike , Mum and Jamie

xoxox

Happy Birthday Jamie!

Fourteen Today!

Hope you have a wonderful day,

Love and hugs

Mum and Dad

xoxoxox