keithstric.com

I've made a few enhancements to keithstric.com and the BlogSphere template. Let's start with commentor's web sites. I noticed that if someone didn't put the http:// in front of their URL and just put www.somesite.com that the link actually went back to my site with the www.somesite.com at the end of the url. So, you would click on the website link for that author and it would return a 404 error. So, I updated the TAG_BSCommentAuthorLink function in the RenderEngine.Tags lotusscript library to check if http:// was in the url, if it wasn't then I add it. That seems to work alright and I didn't even have to refresh the already posted comments, bonus!

Also, I added Snap.com snap-shots. This is a tool that enhances external links with visual previews of the target site. Sometimes a snap-shot will bring you the information you're looking for without leaving this site and causing you to loose your place where you were reading, or it allows you to look ahead to determine if you want to visit the link or not. Pretty cool .

The last addition is a "Subscribe to keithstric.com" block over on the left. This provides you a one click method of adding my RSS feed to many different readers along with their pretty icon. I found this information and buttons at RSS Icon Gallery.

I think the next big project for my website will be to start moving all the images that are stored locally in quick images and the one photo gallery I'm using is to move those images to Flickr. I think this would be a good idea as I only get 1GB of space on the Prominic servers and if I don't have to store the images locally then why should I. The problem is I don't know if that will be completely possible, it'll certainly take some research, tests and trials.

So hopefully everyone will like the new additions and they'll add value to keithstric.com.