The Knowledge, Experience and Influences of a Student of Engineering

WordPress Plugins

27th April, 2008 | FSW

Two great plugins available for WordPress are the WordPress Automatic Upgrade and the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. The former removes the hassle of upgrading WordPress and the latter creates a search engine compliant sitemap and submits it automatically.

Website Ambitions

26th April, 2008 | FSW

With the overall look and feel more defined, work can commence on new features. The key development is a dashboard with several tools.

The first is a car fuel economy tool, to record the mpg for each refuel. The work will require basic database querying and the integration of off-the-shelf graphing server-side scripts. Therefore, such scripts have to be identified.

Once the initial tool has been set-up, the other tools to add:

  • RSS feed reader.
  • Personal Spend Tool.
  • Suitable security.
  • Mobile version of dashboard for over-the-air updates.

That’s it for now.

Further Tweaking

26th April, 2008 | FSW

Small changes made to the main page, and also the blog template. The sidebar in Wordpress has now been activated. Need to polish CSS for right menu.

Tweaking…

18th April, 2008 | FSW

Although the main elements of the site are in position there are some major items that require attention, in no particular order:

  • Finish blog template, noting new URL.
  • Tweak colour scheme for blog.
  • Tweak colour scheme for main site, and most importantly emphasise the menu. Might require small redesign to bring forward.
  • Determine why google does not find ashraf-miah.co.uk.
  • Start blogging about aviation.
  • Create google compatible sitemap.

I have started to treat this blog as a means of tracking my updates.