How I built this blog

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I started a my own blog for two reasons, first off I don’t really like the other blogging sites out there and I quite like the technical challenge of building things. So I figured I would explain what I have done thus far.

Here are the stats:

BLOG:	VERSION	COMMENTS
WordPress	2.6.x	It was easy to install and lots of online support.
WP THEME:
Rion 1.0 by miloIIIIVII	1.0 (Modified)	Simple, white and elegent.
WORDPRESS PLUGINS:
Akismet	2.1.6	Anti-spam!
FeedBurner FeedSmith	2.3.1	Tracks Feeds and hits
Google XML Sitemaps	3.1.0.1	Easier Indexing
WordPress Mobile Edition	2.1a	Mobile phone/browser support
Livejournal Crossposter (LJXP)	2.0.5	Posts to LJ at the same time
OTHER APPS:
LightWindow	2.0 (modified)	Lessens load time via popout video and photo’s
OTHER SUPPORT SITES
Flickr.com		Photos & Videos
YouTube.com		Videos
video.yahoo.com		Videos
jumpcut.com		Videos and Video Editing
Amazon.com		Products and Music
livejournal.com		Blogging Community

Other notes:
I changed the lightwindow.js file from LightWindow v2.  For the “this.element.title” I had to change the link.getAttribute(‘title’) and replaced it with link.getAttribute(‘tip’) to work with the theme which uses SweetTitles (sweetTitles.js).