Destructive Chaos

Generate the new!

In my daily random web browsing tonight I found a neat little tool that generates custom WordPress themes on the fly straight from the site - that you can download and FTP right into your WordPress powered web space. This piece of website generation is really quite a cool concept. I played with it for a brief few seconds and found that it works really well!

It’s 100% free to use!

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

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Destructive Chaos Scores 91% SEO!

I just checked Destructive Chaos’s Search Engine Optimization score! My site scored 91%! The only help they give me to make this any higher is that I should put alt tags on all my large images. What large images? All of them have alt tags!

My META tag relivance kind of sucks though. I’m not sure how to fix this. WordPress adds everything into the META tags to get my site out there more. There is nothing I can do about this. Do you have any ideas on how I can fix this low score (25%).

Destructive Chaos is my most updated web site I have. I take the most care of it. It’s taken a long time to get it where I enjoy going to it and figuring out what software I want to stick with. I think I found my match with WordPress. There is not much that can beat this blogging/CMS software for free. All open source and no encoded parts! It’s just what the doctor ordered. I haven’t had to code much to add onto the site. It’s basicly all been done, so all I have to do is upload the plugins and the site updates it’s self.

WordPress’s built in bloglog ping function is great! Everytime I post new content on the site Google,Bloglog,Yahoo,Ask and all the other major search engines that you may have come across come directly to my site within seconds bring you up2date content by the paragraph. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed and get my comments right to you Vista sidebar, Live.com account. For those of you that used to read my blog just by Windows Live Messenger, you can set my RSS feed to a Live Alert and you’ll get a nice little popup when I post something new. (Who knows maybe that’s how you got here in the first place!)

Also WordPress is very bandwidth friendly - not like I get enough hits to really care - it uses AJAX for many of the admin area, thus making it very interactive and enjoyable. Load times are also better than ever seeing as how much mysql driven stuff actually has to be loaded to get the product.

I’ve kinda taken myself on a rant here again, but you know, it’s my site and I’ll do what I want. Another great thing about lots of text is that it makes your site look really import and well writen - even if it’s full of junk.

 I hope you enjoyed reading my post. And don’t forget to add me to your favorites, or even submit my site to some awesome “topsites” or add a link on your own site, it never hurt anyone, you know. Email me and I’ll add your link to my site (no adult stuff though - I don’t want any outgoing links to that on my site).

Don’t forget to register! Make my day. :p

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The “WOW” Begins Now!

As many of you may or may not know, I bought a new computer right after Navidad (Spanish for Christmas). My new computer came with a free upgrade to Windows Vista (wiki page on Vista) when it was to be released. I received  my upgrade in the mail on Wednesday and after days of thinking about the upgrade I have decided to take the plunge into the world of “WOW”. I know some of my software will not work with Vista.

Some of you may be asking “Why upgrade if some software doesn’t work?”. Simple answer to that, Vista is new! And I like the look of the new UI (User Interface). I just hope F.E.A.R works on Vista. I’m not worried about my hardware not being good enough for Vista. My hardware is good enough to run what ever I want - for the next 6 months at least. You know how it is with computers now a days. One major thing that I hope works with Vista is my network card. I don’t want to have to buy a new one (or do I ;)). Having Vista with no internet would suck.

So, I started creating a Recovery Disc about a half an hour ago. It takes forever. I don’t think I’ll be needing these discs but you never know - Vista might not work well for me. My first disc is complete (1 of 2)! One more to go! Verifying the disc is taking longer then I expected.

I’ll post some screen shots when my computer is running Vista.

As you can see, I’ve linked a lot to Wikipedia. I’ve done this to be the most informative to all of you. :). Join the Wikipedia movement. (It’s not really a movement. Just something I do. :P)

 UPDATE # 1!

I’ve run into a little (or a major problem I guess.) Basicly, HP requires that I get the BIOS update for my PC before I can continue with the upgrade to Windows Vista. So, I get the update off their site and install it. Of course I have to restart my computer after running this install - so that’s what I do. The only thing now is that my computer can not run the OS and I get a nice little black screen saying “Error loading OS_”. So basicly what this update does is turn your computer into a really big, fansy - paper weight.

Now I’m totally lost in what I could do to fix this. Should I cut my loses and throw my computer off my second story balcany, or call Hewlett-Packard (not like they’ll know what to do :P). I’ll just have to wait and see what I can come up with to fix this problem. What could have went wrong?

One things for sure, I’m not buying a full copy of Vista anytime soon.

I’ll keep ya updated on my predicament.

UPDATE # 2

Problem fixed! (I think). What I decided to do is simple - just stick in the upgrade disc and boot the computer from CD just to see if it would work. To my surprise, it did. Now my computer is being updated as I type (from a different computer of course). I really hope it goes on without another problem. I think I caused the problem myself anyway, I got the BIOS update a little late. I half started the preperation before getting the updated BIOS.

Oh well. No harm done (I put all my music on my new external hard drive before Vista even came (always thinking a head!). It will be interesting to see how long it takes to fully upgrade my computer to the new operating system and if the games I have will work on it. We’ll all have to wait and see. I also wonder how many system upgrades have become avalibe for Vista since it’s release? And for that matter - will McAfee work with it? Hmm. I’m running a little blind on this upgrade.

UPDATE # 3

I’m running Vista! My long day of upgrading to the newest Microsoft operating system (Codename: LongHorn) Windows Vista is now complete. The interfaces are fresh and stylish. I’m extremely happy to be on Vista now! There are a few problems like I mentioned above: Network Card doesn’t have Vista drivers; Sound Card isn’t Vista ready (there is a driver for that though - I hope.); Not sure if my Adobe software will work on Vista either.

 This has been an exciting experience for me today. I’m kinda glad to finally be done with it and able just to sit back and play with my new system. It’s been a pretty long day as you can tell. I recommend installing Vista - but you might want to wait before you go out and buy your upgrades. Make sure all your stuff works with Vista first.

As I said above: I’ll post some pictures as soon as I get my Internet working. So I don’t think I will be on WLM tonight.

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