Tim Ginn’s Personal Blog

Well, I’ve fixed the problem with posting comments. Now anonymous users can post just by filling in a CAPTCHA (which should defeat the spam bots). The CAPTCHA’s seem to be mostly math problems (simple addition) so, that shouldn’t be a problem for any of my readers

It also means I don’t have to go through and approve comments; which is great because to be honest I wasn’t doing too good a job of it. I’ve deleted all the old spam comments, now, too (and read new ones). Anyway, I’m quite a bit happier with this layout and think it might just help me post more regularly… which would be good.

I updated Drupal today (and picked a new layout with some more customizations added to it). Anonymous posting doesn’t seem to be working, though (I’m suspicious of whether or not it even worked before the update seeing as in how I’ve had absolutely no comments for ages). So, if you’re commenting here and nothing’s happening: sorry, it won’t go through. I’ll try and fix this problem ASAP. In the mean time, enjoy the new layout

My mother’s website is up now. It’s Marion’s Doll Clothes (she’s been updating it a little bit each day for the past couple of weeks). Today I set it up to use Paypal for her and did a test purchase from my account. The site is powered by Zen Cart, which is a nifty free Open Source shopping cart thing. So, with that site up and running (and Mom being able to do maintenance) that’s one big thing off my TODO list. If you’re interested in hand made doll clothes or fabric that can be purchased by the meter I suggest you check it out (of course, I’m obviously biased :-)).