tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135535332011-07-05T23:03:22.538-07:00A blog about the news and developments in progress for The Shadow Fox Network and its subsites. They deal with tutorials and articles about PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, RSS, and general website development articles. http://www.shadow-fox.netBlitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119933852929483552005-06-27T21:40:00.000-07:002005-06-27T21:44:12.933-07:00

From now on you should go to http://www.shadowblogg.com for your SFN news. Now that it's finished, I also decided to integrate the blog and the main site, so now instead of seperate news, the blog or the site will work to get news. But only the blog site will have the updates to download and the feature demos. So go there. Goodbye blogger, for now. I'll still use you for my main blog.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119846691005211362005-06-26T21:22:00.000-07:002005-06-26T21:31:31.010-07:00

I'm almost finished with the blog. I just have to do some final things. Basically all I have to do is get the page to sign up for testing and do some posting stuff like the BBCode stuff and we're done. So great for that.

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My testing of the blog is almost done. I'm just finishing up on testing the admin panel. All I really have left to do after that is the RSS support, some sanitization issues, and also the blog page testing, though the last thing should be pretty easy and fast.

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I've made bits of progress on the blog. It's almost ready for testing. Right now I'm just taking it a bit apart for modularity and stuff. And I made a few modifications to the database and stuff, so I need to update that in the code as well. At the moment the skinning is subpar. Actually, it's pretty much not even there. After the beta testing I'm going to convert the skinning to an approach I'm

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I've made bits of progress on the blog. It's almost ready for testing. Right now I'm just taking it a bit apart for modularity and stuff. And I made a few modifications to the database and stuff, so I need to update that in the code as well.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119643765541782852005-06-24T13:08:00.000-07:002005-06-24T13:09:25.543-07:00

Three new articles you might not know about:Underlining LinksGet Discovered By YahooMy First RSS Feed

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After about 3 days of coding, scrapping, coding, scrapping, and coding again, I finally got a template for the blog software. Yes! It works perfectly in Firefox because Firefox is awesome, and it's okay in IE. IE still has a bit of problems with it, but it'll look mostly ok. Note that this is not the greatest of layouts. But it's there. Over time, I'm sure that I'll improve it a lot. And at the

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119334129787386412005-06-20T23:03:00.000-07:002005-06-20T23:08:49.790-07:00

I just bought three domains to use. shadowblogg.com, shadowbb.com, and whylifesucks.net. The only one that doesn't work is shadowbb.com mostly because I haven't developed anything for it yet. And the design on the ShadowBlog is not final. And since I pretty much screwed up the handling for the blog, it's going to be recoded. My OOP approach didn't really work. Maybe for version 2 of it or

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119317189120699182005-06-20T18:24:00.000-07:002005-06-20T18:26:29.126-07:00

I just wanted the tabs to look more like links, so I underlined the ones that were not being used for the current page. And also I used some more CSS stuff to instead have the affiliates/network/blah put inside of the content of the page instead of there being two pages. And I'll write a few tutorials tomorrow. I'm still kind of trying to think of ideas for tutorials for Twodded.com...

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119237736987753522005-06-19T20:21:00.000-07:002005-06-19T20:22:16.990-07:00

Here's a quick list of features I whipped up for the blog.http://blogging.shadow-fox.net/list.html

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Sorry for my lack of updates to my blog. But I've been working on the alpha version of the ShadowBlog. Plus I just got these really good new headphones and have been listening to Rush all day. I know I could listen on my computer speakers, but I wanted good quality. Anyways, the preliminary coding is almost done. I'm going to do the basic alpha testing myself. And then sometime next week I'll

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119132432696557012005-06-18T15:03:00.000-07:002005-06-18T15:07:12.700-07:00

I removed the ads I had on. Those were just temporary. But eventually they got very annoying with the context popups inside the content. Soon ads from Google will be added, but luckily those don't have those annoying popups in the content. So that's nice.And finally everything looks like it's been fixed with the DNS problems. So that's good as well.

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The problem is with the people that routes the IP of my website. Some people can't view it because of that. They say that they're going to assign it a different IP, but it can take a while... So hold tight. I think I might end up switching hosts soon to something like Spoonohost or Globat.But I don't know yet. I like the space and bandwidth provided with my host, even if I don't use all of it.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119072950700710732005-06-17T22:32:00.000-07:002005-06-17T22:35:50.703-07:00

I just talked to a few of my friends, and it seems that the problem must be on my side. I'm getting an error about it "timing out." I'm not sure what the problem is, it's been working fine until just today. If anyone has any ideas as the the problem, please tell me. It says for firefox "The operation timed out when attempting to contact www.shadow-fox.net." So if you have any ideas, just leave a

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119064806439246872005-06-17T20:19:00.000-07:002005-06-17T20:20:06.443-07:00

My site's been down since I got home. I'm going to submit a trouble ticket to the host soon. Sorry for the downtime.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1119038823959018362005-06-17T13:07:00.000-07:002005-06-17T13:07:03.963-07:00

School's finally out! Now I have all summer. At least until around thesecond week of August for marching band camp. When did the summer getso short? Oh well. Anyways, the master of Why Life Sucks - Not PoweredBy Emo http://noemo.shadow-fox.net is going to Japan next week. Butafter he gets back we'll really start on it and make it better. Andanyway, I'll start on a few tutorials tomorrow.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118891693806969792005-06-15T20:07:00.000-07:002005-06-15T20:14:54.753-07:00

Here's the thing: Me and my friend want to expand our sites. Like a lot. I have shadow-fox.net and he's got shadow-fox.net/alex. I coded both, but he's pretty much managing the latter. But over the summer we're going to do a lot of stuff with this network, open up new sites, new blogs, general help things, and a lot of sites just to make you laugh. But for this, I need some staff. If anyone out

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118870841485008352005-06-15T14:22:00.000-07:002005-06-15T14:27:21.493-07:00

I removed the annoying logo at the top of the page. It had some problems with IE and I had to fix that. So all better now. And expect another few tutorials on RSS later this week. First day of finals in school is done. Two more days of finals and school left. I already did my band finals and got a 93 on those. So I'm pretty sure I got back into the top band. So good for that. But this summer I

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118795068441747042005-06-14T16:30:00.000-07:002005-06-14T17:49:20.213-07:00

I just wrote a tutorial on authoring RSS Feeds. Everyone loves RSS feeds. I'll write a tutorial on where to submit them and how to promote later.http://www.shadow-fox.net/articles/52And the thing I noticed was that I didn't make a news page that I used in my RSS feeds, so I'll try and fix that soon.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118726428452500532005-06-13T22:15:00.000-07:002005-06-13T22:20:28.463-07:00

Now as you all know I had set up RSS feeds for the new version of the site. Then I "burned" them using Feedburner and now they work in any RSS 0.9, 0.1, 2.0, and Atom readers. Plus I have statistics. So last night I went and submitted them to almost any RSS feed directory I could find. Just today I've received over 300 unique hits: almost double the amount I was getting before. I'll probably

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118632957846849832005-06-12T20:20:00.000-07:002005-06-12T20:22:37.850-07:00

Thanks to a tip from Dan of Pixel2Life.com I fixed my article page. In IE the area for comments exceeded the area for the content and went down below the affiliate/network/etc. box. But it's all fixed now. So that's good for the IE people.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118602520388744502005-06-12T11:54:00.000-07:002005-06-12T11:55:20.393-07:00

I just put up a banner on every page of my site at the top as a little graphic thing. It's pretty small, but it's still cool.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118548953466773102005-06-11T21:01:00.000-07:002005-06-11T21:02:33.470-07:00

Yeah, last post before I get a doughnut and go to sleep. Just spent about 15 minutes fixing the join script to be an affiliate. Had no idea that it was screwing up. But it's all better now. So become an affiliate now!

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118544399383954182005-06-11T19:43:00.000-07:002005-06-11T19:46:39.386-07:00

I just added two new tutorials.http://www.shadow-fox.net/articles/51 - A tutorial on how I made the tabbed nav.http://www.shadow-fox.net/articles/49 - A webmaster article on how NOT to get banned from Google's Adsense.And just something random--I just downloaded the betas of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 and got them in less than a second because I downloaded at more than 1MB a second which is

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118531752979827602005-06-11T16:14:00.000-07:002005-06-11T16:15:52.983-07:00

I just implemented a tab look on the main page of the site mostly because I felt the nav text was too faint to be seen, and I just like the look of tabs. Plus I got to use a new CSS technique, so it's all good. I just made a post of how the main site and this blog will work in conjunction.

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118471918507879522005-06-10T20:46:00.000-07:002005-06-10T23:42:38.410-07:00

I finally took the time and looked at all of my affiliates and took out all of them that weren't linking to my site. So yay for that. But soon I'm going to have my affiliates link to a certain page for them so I can know who's sending traffic and who isn't. I know I could probably build a script to check the referrers, but I'm too lazy. Maybe after finals for school I will. Because a link thing

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118367487257661072005-06-09T18:38:00.000-07:002005-06-10T06:50:20.263-07:00

Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, the version 3 of TheShadow Fox Network http://www.shadow-fox.net has been released! New details here:RSS Feeds!A Dev BlogRSS tutorial categoryMuch fasterNew slick designMore efficientSearch Engine friendlyNow I know that not everything was released that was said to bereleased *cough*Topsites*cough* but everything will come in due time.I'm still

Blitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15758018780109753547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13553533.post-1118359340310735612005-06-09T16:20:00.000-07:002005-06-09T16:22:20.313-07:00

This is the first post in this blog. Basically I will try to update it every day with news about the site The Shadow Fox Network - http://www.shadow-fox.net which is all about trying to teach users the ins and outs and sides of webdevelopment. This is a temporary blog until I can finally get my own blog software working and up for download which will be sometime in the summer.

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