Big change in the design of this diary, which is more like a weblog now.
So far, I didn't really see the benefit of using a weblog, instead of copying
and pasting the last entry to recreate the style. That was until I saw Fred's weblog and found out more about
Movabletype.
Not only this tool will create the page automatically, it also uses a database to show the individual entries, allow any visitor to leave a comment, to run a search...
It looks pretty good too in my opinion, close to the simplified design I was trying to implementing a few months ago.
Unfortunately, converting my old diary into this weblog was not something
easy since I had to change the links on all the pages.
I finally ended up using a 4 line-csh script:
foreach file (`find . -name "*htm*"`)
cat $file | sed 's/diary\.html/weblog\.index\.html/' > tmp
mv tmp $file
end
Done ! How would you do it with Windows ? ;-)
Also, I had to input the contents of the previous diary into one new single
entry of this weblog (well I could have inputted them one by one but I figured
it was not worth it at 2:30am !). Therefore, the design is still in a
transition phase and the search feature may not be very useful as of now,
since you might as well use the search function of your browser !
