Apologies to those of you who got repeated posts in the feed. I’ve been having a few problems with the timed publishing options in WordPress. (Operator error, nothing more). Think I’ve got it licked now, but it may have led to a few repetitions.

The other thing I’ve got to remember is to make sure that there is enough text to go to the bottom of the image I’m using. I you saw the post earlier you’ll know what I mean. There’s probably a clever way to do it with CSS, but I haven’t figured it out yet…

Got an email a day or two ago from the Amazon Associates program I signed up for. They very nicely pointed out that I had yet to make a sale thru the Amazon website. Which I thought was nice of them. Please do point out the fact that I don’t yet have the traffic of YouTube or Google.

It did make me laugh though, one of their suggested solutions was to plaster the site with even more ads for Amazon. Hardly subtle, is it. Still, nice to know that their automated systems are thinking of me…

Cheeky monkeys.

As mentioned a while ago, I’ve registered www.onecubicmetre.com and www.onecubicmetre.co.uk. At the moment they are just Heart Internet domain holding pages, because I’ve not bought a hosting package yet.

What I’m unsure of is whether to make the .com or the .co.uk domain the ‘master’. At the moment the .co.uk address redirects to the .com address. So effectively the .com is the master address. I’m just not sure if this is the right way round.

Will it have a broader appeal as a .com? Will people from outside the UK see the .co.uk and assume it’s got nothing to say to them?

Comments on this matter would be very much appreciated.

This test blog has been up for less than 4 weeks now, and today I had my first spam comment. Just the one, but I imagine the numbers will only increase from now on. It’s not like I’ve gone out of my way to publicise this address either. I think I know why it’s happened though…

By signing up to FeedBurners ping service, to let a number of aggregators or scrapers know when a new post is uploaded, I’m guessing that the comment spammers also pay attention to these services. On the plus side, lots of people get notified that there is new content available, on the downside, some of those people are bastards.

I’ve already activated the anti comment spam plugin for WordPress in the hope that that will reduce the amount of spam that needs human intervention. Fortunately none of it would have reached the front page because I still have the comment moderation turned on. Such is life.

Having looked over the code in the example themes and hunting round the WordPress site I still can’t figure it out. How the hell do you enable the comments code? It really is a puzzle.  I can see what’s going to happen.  I’m gonna’ have to hollow out a theme where it does work and then refill it with my own code so it looks how I want it too.  Damnit, exactly what I was hoping to avoid.

I would invite you to leave a comment, but as yet that’s a no go. Best get back to trawling thru acres of barely understood code then…

You might have also noticed that the header image and footer are now in place, thanks to some prodding. Cheers Steve!