Imagination is everything…
Posts tagged website
My Thank You to the Community
Jan 24th
I like Folaji.com.
I like it because this is probably the first site that I’ve ever created for myself, and after a year and a half online, I find nothing more relaxing than sitting back and looking at my site, which I built the way I wanted to, without the constant input from some external party about advertising revenues and traffic statistics.
Its not that I hate developing sites for other, I’ve been doing that for as long as I can remember, and I don’t see any reason why I would stop. But there is something liberating about creating a site that is yours and yours alone, a site where you have final say on content, look and feel, and overall organization.
And that’s what Folaji.com is for me: a place I can escape to and be myself, where I can publish ideas, stories, and videos that had once only been a sentence on a piece of paper in an old binder. A place where others can come and read those stories, discuss them, and share their own if they would like. (Ok, maybe the Folaji.com community isn’t big enough for that yet, but hey, I can dream, can’t I?)
Alright, so why am I writing all this? Well, I came to the realization a few days ago that none of this would be possible if not for the array of wonderful free web tools available online. When you look at this site, you should understand that the look and feel, the blog engine, the different tools showing up on the side bar, were all developed by a large online community of bloggers and developers that offer their products for free. If it weren’t for these people and their willingness to share their tools with the online community, then Folaji.com would only be a shadow of its current self.
So I decided that, as a thank you for everyone’s efforts, I would take the time over the coming months to review each widget, plugin and tool I use on Folaji.com. This would be my way of thanking the community for such great work, and for allowing me to create this site, and hopefully will encourage others to do the same.
Changes and Upgrades
Jan 16th
Well, there have been a few changes to the site today.
First, the WordPress engine has been upgraded to the latest version. This upgrade has been a long time coming, but hadn’t been applied yet due to incompatibility with certain plugins. If you’re interested in details of the upgrade, you can view a quick video in the link below. Its mostly back end changes that make my life easier, but hey, who doesn’t want to make my life easier, right?
Next bit of news, the Forums have been retired/removed/not there anymore. Now this shouldn’t be a surprise as I’d explained how I planned to remove them a couple of weeks back. I just want to say that the people at SimplePress have made a wonderful forums plugin, but when it came down too it, however, the forums were simply no longer useful for this site.
But what happened to all the cool stuff we talked about?
I did make a backup before uninstalling the plugin, so everything is still somewhere. Also, I’ve moved the RAWR update posts to the blog, and you can now find them under the DnD Weekly Updates category (there’s also a link on the RAWR page).
Oh, and one more thing: I have another blog hidden somewhere on the web that I’ll be incorporating with Folaji.com. I’ve been thinking about it, and although the subject matter of the other blog is not really related to this site, there’s no real reason why I can’t merge the two together and just create a different category on this site. So, expect some different and interesting content in the coming weeks.
New Tag Cloud
Jan 10th
If you havn’t yet, take the time to scroll down a bit and look at the right column. You’ll notice that I’ve added a nifty new 3D Tag Cloud that’ll allow you to view all posts for whatever tag you click on.
Go ahead, try it out!
NOTE: From what I understand, you need JavaScript enabled and Flash installed for the tag cloud to work.
New Progress Page
Jan 8th
You may have noticed a new page show up on the top menu bar yesterday called Writing Progress, which I’ve created to keep everyone up to date with all my writing projects. I’ve added this page for a couple of reasons:
- I’m a nerd and like charts
- I realize that there are some times when the blog is not updated, and I want to show that, even though there are no new posts, content is being prepared
- I was surfing blogs and found an example of this kind of page on Danie Ford’s blog, and found it pretty nifty
Since I use a methodology when I write, I’ve purposely added more detail to the larger projects, and also decided to use code names to identify them so as to keep some element of mystery 
. So if you’re ever wondering what I’m up to, or when a certain story post is finally going to be available, now all you have to do is check the Progress Page.
