Clean up layout and stuff and things...
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 14:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cashewIt's been a while since I did any maintenance on the blog other than writing and ranting a lot. Mostly because the maintenance aspect is like cleaning house — something that needs to be done regularly, but is such a pain that you keep putting it off until something drastic forces your hand and you spend way, way too long getting everything in order.
Anyway.
Due to recent Photobucket fail and my mood theme hosting account finally got the axe to hot-linking, I've been forced to either reset all the links for my mood theme, or revert to one of the free public themes. So, since I've been donating to Dreamwidth but haven't been using my points for paid services (mostly because the free service is more than enough for my personal use at the moment), I decided to spend some points and get a month's worth of paid service so I can at least fix up the mood theme links.
Which meant many hours of slowly and laboriously uploading images onto Dreamwidth's native image hosting (which continues to be a bit janky to use and really annoying that the image host will change the file name thus making it impossible to mass upload images and still keep track of image pathways), then copy-paste the code into the mood theme editor. Of course I've considered the possibility of using a third-party site to upload the images, thus allowing me to quickly copy-pasting image paths into the console code and saving myself so much headache, but who knows when the third party site is going to collapse? At least pushing my way through Dreamwidth's clunky interface to host images natively on DW servers means there is the advantage of not having to deal with hotlink issues, since Dreamwidth automatically disables off-site hotlinking.
Point is: After all that effort, I've successfully guaranteed that unless Dreamwidth goes down, my custom mood theme is safe. Phew!
(For those who want to check out the entire package, click here for my custom Onion Heads moodtheme. Credit for the art can be found at my credit & license entry.)
And since I have the advantage of a paid account for 30 days, decided to use the mass entry editor to lock all of my previously public entries because I'm too lazy to go back and check which ones contained information that I would rather not let internet randos read. Which means, new start forcashew!
Back to puttering around and doing nothing now.
Edit: BTW, I realized 9/11 is 18-years-old now. 😭😢
Anyway.
Due to recent Photobucket fail and my mood theme hosting account finally got the axe to hot-linking, I've been forced to either reset all the links for my mood theme, or revert to one of the free public themes. So, since I've been donating to Dreamwidth but haven't been using my points for paid services (mostly because the free service is more than enough for my personal use at the moment), I decided to spend some points and get a month's worth of paid service so I can at least fix up the mood theme links.
Which meant many hours of slowly and laboriously uploading images onto Dreamwidth's native image hosting (which continues to be a bit janky to use and really annoying that the image host will change the file name thus making it impossible to mass upload images and still keep track of image pathways), then copy-paste the code into the mood theme editor. Of course I've considered the possibility of using a third-party site to upload the images, thus allowing me to quickly copy-pasting image paths into the console code and saving myself so much headache, but who knows when the third party site is going to collapse? At least pushing my way through Dreamwidth's clunky interface to host images natively on DW servers means there is the advantage of not having to deal with hotlink issues, since Dreamwidth automatically disables off-site hotlinking.
Point is: After all that effort, I've successfully guaranteed that unless Dreamwidth goes down, my custom mood theme is safe. Phew!
(For those who want to check out the entire package, click here for my custom Onion Heads moodtheme. Credit for the art can be found at my credit & license entry.)
And since I have the advantage of a paid account for 30 days, decided to use the mass entry editor to lock all of my previously public entries because I'm too lazy to go back and check which ones contained information that I would rather not let internet randos read. Which means, new start for
cashew!Back to puttering around and doing nothing now.
Edit: BTW, I realized 9/11 is 18-years-old now. 😭😢
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