Well, it’s been a big month for Port 16, I didn’t bother writing a summary post for July, since I didn’t really do much, and it was the blog’s first half month in existence, most of which I spent on vacation.

So what happened in August?

This month was mostly about layout, and getting some sort of a posting schedule going. This month I made 36 posts, bringing the grand total up to 41 posts. I found a theme that I really like, and modified it so that it is even more to my liking.

Here are a few stats about my visitors, laugh if you want:

Visitors: 152 Absolute Unique Visitors. Each one of them cherished.

Page Views: 1,370 page views (I’m sure most of that was me).

New Visits: 34.06% were new visitors

Bounce Rate: 43.72%

All in all, I’m pretty darn happy with the turnout this month. I really have to thank Phil at Thought Sparks, and Art at Incoherent Mumbling, for all of their comments. Really, all of you that commented, thank you!

I had my last blog for several years, but I never really connected with the community much, and I really think that I’m getting to meet some great people now. It really makes blogging so much more fun.

Now, for the juiciest posts, here are the top 5 for this month:

1. Finally, a new theme!

2. Problems Uploading Images to WordPress using Windows Live Writer Beta?

3. 6 Reasons Not to Stop Drinking Coffee

4. A Study in Heat, Time and Smoke: Pulled Pork

5. Easy way to Schedule a future post in WordPress

Ok, so what’s in store next month? Well, I started Port 16 so that I could try and help people, of all technical backgrounds, exploit technology. I mean, what good is it if you don’t understand why you would want it, and how to use it. So next month I would like to start getting more into that theme.

This month I had a bunch of posts, and although I’m glad that I was able to keep cranking them out, 3 of the top 5 had nothing to do with my mission.

One more time, I want to thank everyone who commented, and all of my readers. Please feel free to let me know what you liked or disliked. I welcome feedback, even if it is negative.

Stay tuned.

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Last night after I had given up on the theme I was working with, I still just couldn’t leave it alone. So I started poking around, looking for a new theme. What I found was the Cleaker 2.1 theme, made available by Adam Walker Cleaveland of Cleve Design. Thanks a lot Adam!

I was up for quite awhile modifying some items on the theme, and I plan on changing some others later on, but let me tell you, I am sure glad to finally have a new theme.

Port 16’s original theme, Redatom 1.0 by AskGraphics, was very nice, but I just had trouble with some aspects of it.

If you find any problems with this theme, let me know and I’ll do my best to straighten them out. I know that the comments box is skewed to the right a little bit, when viewed with FireFox, and I’ll get to that.

So, enough of that, let me ask you this.

How do you like this theme?

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AKA: This is not my beautiful House! This is not my beautiful blog!

Sorry folks, the theme changes didn’t work out.

I had been playing with the theme I wanted to use over on http://testbed.port16.com and it looked good, I was pretty happy with it and I thought that all I had to do was drop in my code, and I would be good to go.

No Such Luck.

Although the widget panel in site admin looks like it works, it doesn’t. I’m not sure what the problem is there, but I didn’t feel like putting all of the widgets that I want into the theme by hand.

So, back to the drawing board.

Unfortunately I used up my “messing with the blog” quota for tonight. I’ll be back.

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I’m going to be applying a new theme tonight, so just bear with me. I’ll post again when I’m all finished.

Some things may break, and I’ll be fixing them as I go.

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I moved the blog, and it wasn’t too bad at all. I have been reading up on my .htaccess, and now if you type the domain name with or without the www, you will be redirected to http://port16.com/blog. It works pretty nicely.

I have one link out there that is probably going to be broken,

The one problem that I saw, was that Technorati is counting every post in the /blog directory as a link to the root directory. Very inconvenient.

I knew that I was going to break the links to the images, and at this point I didn’t have much up there, so I just went through and fixed them all.

Thanks for bearing with me.

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