More website administrivia: I’m loving the little buttons that seem to be popping up in the blogosphere. Here’s a dizzying collection, as well as a site where you can make your own on the fly. That’s where I made my cute endmark, below. I was hoping to make it more square, with just an “RP” for “Rebel Prince,” but this was easier and will do for now. Especially while scrolling down long pages, it reminds you what site you’re at (as if you, loyal reader, really need that) and keeps the whole thing “on message”–in almost the same way media people put up backdrops at speeches, tiled with repeating themes. (For the record, I think this is the first, and let’s hope the last, time I will ever link to a picture of President George W. Bush.) Oh, and the buttons link back to the top of the page for your navigational ease, as well.
What else? I’m enabling TrackBack from here on out, so other Movable Type folks (and others with compatible blogging systems?), provided you’re so inspired as to write a referring entry in your own blog, can give me a ping. Don’t worry, the whole idea still boggles me a bit too, so stay close and we’ll find our way together.
And I updated my installation of MT to version 2.64. Not that I had any compelling need to do so, but I thought, hey, I’ve got some time on my hands. The news feed is now RSS 2.0, so those of you in the know, tell me if that messes anything up, or if you think I should keep the 1.0 option, too.
2 replies on “Cute as a button”
Heh… glad to have been an inspiration for the button mania. I also like that you’ve added TrackBack; there have been several of your entries I’d referred to in my journal, but wasn’t previously able to ping.
Also, it seems that you’ve recently begun pinging weblogs.com when you update? I notice that I’m now getting an indicator through blogrolling when you’ve updated, when I wasn’t before, and I think that’s where they get the update time info. I like being able to see, in the list of blogs from my sidebar, that you’ve updated.
Yup! I’ve discovered the wonderful world of pings. (And I’ve configured my blogroll to append an asterisk to recently updated sites.)