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We've Moved

Mad Utopia has moved. That's right, my blog has made a radical shift. While still called Mad Utopia, and still hosted on the same servers, the underlaying framework has changed. I am abandoning TikiWiki as my blogging software and going with WordPress. If you have this blog bookmarked, or subscribe to the RSS feed, please take a moment to change those settings over to the new and improved Mad Utopia. I'd really appreciate it.

What does this mean for #fridayflash?

The #fridayflash Twitter meme is alive and well. In fact, there is a new web form that you can use to log your story in for inclusion in The #fridayflash Report. Follow the link, or click on the #fridayflash Badge in the right-hand menu. This will take you to the form.

The form is a little quirky right now, but it works. If you are a member of my TikiWiki and loged in, the form works like most forms, with fields to fill in, an anti-bot CAPTCHA, and a Submit button. Except in Internet Exploder, where it tends to explode. But it still works. It just looks funky. We hope to clean that up at some point, but as my CSS teacher once said, “IE and CSS can drive you nuts.”

For guests, the form looks very weird, even if you are using other browsers. Again, it still works. After you fill out the fields, enter the CAPTCHA and hit ENTER. The form will successfully submit. There is a save button way up at the top left-hand corner, but it's easier to just hit return.

I hope to eventually have a #fridayflash button on the WordPress blog. I still need to figure out how to place clickable images in the WordPress right-hand menu. If you have any tips along those lines please pass them on.

Sorry about the messy form, but no move goes without a hitch.

What does this mean for the blog?

My new posts will be done on the WordPress side of the house. This means you can now use a normal commenting system instead of that funky one where you had to enter a title. Now it will be easy for you to leave links back to your own blogs. Hooray!

It also means that I can start to use some of the standard blog tools and widgets to spiff up the site. Mad Utopia is still in a state of flux, so bear with me. Eventually all the public pages will be done with WordPress, while TikiWiki will be used to drive operations in the background (such as generating the Report). I hope you like the changes as much as I do.
~jon

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