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What Runs My Site
From time to time people will ask me what runs the various aspects of my webpage, well here we go.
I have my webpage hosted off of some computer run by the nice people at Pair.com.
I use MoveableType 3.15 to run the various blogs on my page and my friend's pages. Its not too tough to set up in Mac OS X, and you can even do it on your own personal computer if you so wish. The new version (3.0) has many more restricts on usage, such as only one user, so I'm not going to upgrade any time soon. In addition to MoveableType I use a handy front end program called Ecto to post without having to use the web interface. Though $18, its well worth the cash. Ecto is available for both OS X and Windows. The template I'm using for my entire webpage was done by Neil Turner, who has quite a few free templates to use in MoveabletType.
I use iPhoto to make my photo albums, and I even paid $20 to buy a better html exporter: BetterHTMLExport. I just didn't like the way iPhoto put out photos. My Moblog is run by the free site Flickr, and I use my cell phone to post photos from it as well as a nice free program called 1001 by the same guy who made Ecto.
Its just really a seperate blog which outputs an extra html file, which is linked to my main page via a PHP include. Heres how the directions I used. The only difference is I made an extra template which just spits out an html file that only had the links, and then the PHP include is linked to that file. This way you can still search and view the LinkBlog by itself as a completely seperate blog.
I guess you could say my Tuneblog isn't really a blog at all, really. The entire process is done through the use of Kung-tunes, a free little OS X program that can upload song info from iTunes to a webserver. I have my current song choice shown on my main blog page, and an extended list shown on a sub-page.
Made by me due to common questions being asked by people on campus. I use the screen capture utility Snapz Pro to capture the screen shots.
Some fun video I make using iMovie and my Sony video camera. The page itself is just another blog run by Movabletype. The videos are hosted on a server owned by my friend Dale.
I've got a really nice online Calendar which is run through some PHP scripts called PHP iCalendar, which is free. When used in conjuction with Apple's iCal and a nice little free program called iCal FTP updating my online calendar is quick and easy.
The statistics that are shown on my Stats Page are generated by a very powerful and very easy to use PHP script called bbclone. Free and powerful.