Comments on: Altitude training

By: Greg Downs

Greg Downs — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:42:51 +0000

ck - I’ve got a working XHTML and CSS knowledge that would probably be enough to let me make any tiny changes to the Wordpress template I ended up going with - but, for all the reasons above (mainly time), I’ll probably just stick with the status quo for now. I know I’d want to start adding bells and whistles and it’d eat into all the other stuff I have to do, and I can’t allow that to happen. A website is a true timesink.

By: cklarock

cklarock — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:53:45 +0000

For hosting, I like lunarpages.com. Good rates, lots of space and bandwidth, and they’re set up well for WordPress. Migrating your MySQL db will be a bit of a slog, but the Lunarpages tech support actually answers the phone (gasp!), so they should be able to talk you through it.

By: cklarock

cklarock — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:52:19 +0000

If you host this blog on your own domain, you can still use WordPress as the site engine — in effect, nothing would change, save that it was on your server instead of theirs.

To work fully with the WordPress themes, you really don’t need any Java at all. Most of the mojo is done with php, or modular extensions (plugins) that you won’t need to hack up.

I use WordPress as a content management system for some of my clients (I design websites), and love it. It lets me control presentation, and they control content. The backend is user-friendly and accessable.

If you want to take your site apart and make any serious changes, what you’ll really need is XHTML and CSS skills. They are the presentation layer. A basic idea of what the various php calls do will help, but honestly, they are pretty straightforward.

By: Greg Downs

Greg Downs — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:44:18 +0000

It’d still just be a blog - only on my own domain rather than on Wordpress.

I’m steadily eating into my allotted 50MB of file space here on Wordpress - currently it’s at about 15% - and I just thought instead of buying more space here I might as well set up peschronicles on its own domain. I bought the .co.uk name a few months ago just in case (and to stop anyone else buying it and trying to sell it back to me. There are people who do that).

I don’t think it’ll happen, though. I haven’t got the time to maintain a website and produce its content. (And play games!) The last website I set up ended up taking over all my free time. When I start getting near 100% of filespace here I’ll probably just start uploading the files elsewhere and linking to them.

By: paww2k8

paww2k8 — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:15:00 +0000

Well fair enough then.

I’ve had many attempts at setting up websites (some such sucessful some not). Getting everything running smoothly can be an ass. To be fair even getting your own domain name and redirecting it to this site is a good start.

I’m assuming though that all the posters come from PESFan so in a way I’d might be a step back taking it off a blog site. I don’t know how many other game dedicated blogs there are on wordpress, never looked.

In a way unless you’ve got alot of time (which it doesn’t sound like) Wordpress sounds like a nice place to blog. Its reliable, fast, easy to use. The list goes on.

You can put up your own html/css content too as far as I’m aware. I was in the process of doing so for my own blog (I wouldn’t ever be able to get enough content down so I gave up).

Btw I didn’t mention it in any of my other big comments.

PES5 speed, yours sounds like the PS3 IS speeding it up. I’ve ran it on my PS2 and it runs roughly the same, possibly slightly slower than 2008 on my PC. PES6 is another matter (was using it on PC - it felt like how you described your experience of PES5 with the ball flying around).