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Small changes

published on
December 29th, 2006
by Marko Mrdjenovic

Today I decided to change the blog a bit.

  1. I added an OpenId header.
  2. I added a Pavatar header
  3. I removed the ‘Add to:’ bar below the posts
  4. I added a page for the Pingerator.
  5. I decided to test the text-ad services: Google AdSense, Text Link Ads and ToboAds.

I added OpenID because I think it’s a really good initiative. If you don’t know much about it go check Simon Willison’s screencast on how to use it and how to add it to your site. I found Pavatar on Brian Ellin’s blog and felt it’s a nice idea – I was thinking about what could replace Gravatar now that it’s down (as did Dave). I also went and removed the ‘Add to:’ links since I didn’t really like them and I just added them to see if they would have any influence on posts actually being bookmarked. The pingerator was added to increase its findability and the ad services will be tested to see how they work and if they work for me. If I get any money it will be invested in software and/or computer books.

Opinions

  1. posted on
    December 29th, 2006
    by AdsBay

    Nice changes, but your mouse over menu is not working properly with IE7! The menu opens but when you go to click on a menu item it closes again. It works fine with FireFox though :D

  2. posted on
    December 30th, 2006
    by Jeena Paradies

    <link rel=�pavatar� href=http://friedcellcollective.net/pavatar.png� />

    The ? should be “

  3. posted on
    December 30th, 2006
    by Marko Mrdjenovic

    AdsBay – thanks for the report, will check the code.
    Jeena – pasted from Brian Elin’s blog – the quotes are not normal double quotes unfortunately.

  4. posted on
    January 10th, 2007
    by Dmitry Shechtman

    Well, your pavatar just doesn’t work.

    You’ll have to replace these UTF characters with “.

  5. posted on
    January 10th, 2007
    by Marko Mrdjenovic

    view source?

  6. posted on
    January 10th, 2007
    by Dmitry Shechtman

    View Source can handle UTF-8 characters, but most parsers can’t.

    At least mine doesn’t.

  7. posted on
    January 10th, 2007
    by Marko Mrdjenovic

    Dmitry – the quotes have been changed even before I posted the comment in response to Jeena. Obviously your parser can’t handle something else…

  8. posted on
    January 11th, 2007
    by Dmitry Shechtman

    :lol:

    You didn’t change it in http://friedcellcollective.net/ !

  9. posted on
    January 11th, 2007
    by Marko Mrdjenovic

    my mistake. forgot I added it to the root as well.

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My name is Marko Mrdjenovič and I’m a web developer and a manager from Ljubljana, Slovenia (N 46° 03.246,W 14° 30.265).

I like solving problems. I do that by writing code, managing projects and people. I like creating good experiences. And going to conferences. I work at Zemanta. I do freelance UX/front-end/back-end work, available from March.

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