akrish

After being online for about a month, Akrish.net is finally on Google’s search engine. It’s the first hit if you search for ‘akrish.net’, and it’s the second hit if you just type ‘akrish’. Hopefully this will result in a lot more traffic on the site. Thanks to everyone who linked to me (the only one I know of is Prashant) as that’s how Google’s crawlers got here in the first place. Also thanks to all the people who’ve been reading my entries and giving me feedback on them.

I finished a new layout/design for this site and uploaded all the images and style-sheet last night. It’s nothing too original, just like a banner image and left navigation images but the rest of the styling is done entirely in css. I wanted to make something a little more original, but I also wanted to change the older layout because it was pretty lame. I think this layout will change pretty soon, but it seems like a step up from the older layout.

I showed it to my dad this morning and he said that the fonts are hard to read. I think part of this is because I was designing on a mac, but it looks a little different on Windows. Well, let me know what you think. Does this layout make things hard to read? Is it a good layout?

I just wrote a really long entry in this stupid upload form that didn’t actually write anything so I lost like a 7 paragraph post that took me like 30 minutes to write. Note to self: always keep a copy of things somewhere else. I’m too frustrated right now to rewrite the post now, but maybe later tonight.

Up until now I’ve been writing articles directly into my XML files, but last night I spent a couple hours trying to get an online upload form working. I wrote a xml writer, and a password-protected page on the site. The form on the page takes in the text of my blog post and adds the proper xml tags by just doing some simple string processing.

I’m actually writing this post in that form. It’s kind of a test to see how well that works. I also have some aspirations to allow for more tags (such as images, links and code tags) but I think those will have to be manually entered into the online form. I don’t intend to make the writer search for and interpret those tags.

I’m going to be spending most of today working on the site too. I hope to have all the back-end stuff done by tonight, so I can just focus on writing articles and design.

It’s probably obvious, but I’ve been working on UI design for this site, and I’ve uploaded whatever I’ve done so far, hoping that the site can go live ASAP. I’ll be working on this for pretty much the rest of the day (it’s 10 AM) so hopefully I’ll have some additions to this stylesheet or something new altogether. All I did was create the banner image and mess with some font colors in CSS. Let me know what you think please.