About Sablay

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# What is Sablay?
It’s simply an online journal for self-expression of yours truly. It may be called a blog or a journal. But as far as I’m concerned, technically, Sablay is a online journal. My life, my story, my rants, my raves… in written form.

I may or may not deem entries public, private or uncommentable. For info, please read the Disclaimer.

# What does sablay mean?
A Filipino word that means “hits and misses”, mostly misses. Because, well, I often *miss the mark*

# What’s Self-Similarity?
… A geometric structure that has this replicating behavior under the appropriate magnifications is said to be self-similar; each sub-part when appropriately magnified looks just like the larger part …

It is also the subtitle for this online journal, and also the name for my LJ

Uhm… If you still don’t get it, don’t ask anymore.

# How do I contact you?
Simply fill up the contact form here

# The layouts you use, do you draw/ make them yourself?
I try my best to personalize all my layouts. I am an artist, but I am not a photographer, so once in a while I would use stock pictures from royalty-free sites. I point them out in the credits section of my layouts. I make my own codes though especially the CSS from scratch. *whew*

# That avatar of yours, it’s so cute! You made it as well?
Now, that’s one thing in this site I didn’t make ^__^ and I acknowledge that someone who made it for me. Even if he had a tight sched and all! :blows kiss:

# What are the stuff you use for this site?
See below for all the info. From the text editor to the plugins used for this blog.

Back-end

  • Wordpress!!! - Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform. WP all the way smiley
  • Adobe Photoshop - Image-editing/making software for the graphics, layouts and anything *visual* in this site.
  • ConTEXT - (on the PC) a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. I do most of my coding manually, and this is a versatile programming editor that I love. Simple and practical.
  • Text Wrangler - (on the Mac) It’s like ConTEXT for the Mac, only with collaboration features and you can edit straight on the server. And it has it’s own kind of tabs.
  • Adobe Dreamweaver - For offline XHTML and CSS validation. Seriously. And oh, it also helps me to close tags. Otherwise, it’s really manual coding for me. ^^;
  • Teh Beloved - The source of most of my inspiration~

WP Plugins

(currently active Wordpress plugins)

Just in case if you’re wondering what I used.

  • Comment Quicktags - Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form. So you can easily format your comments!
  • Footnotes - Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. I always wanted my posts to have footnotes sometimes. This plugin makes it easier for me ^__^ . Footnotes, Pratchett-style! Ha!
  • Livejournal Crossposter - Automatically copies all posts to a LiveJournal or other LiveJournal-based blog. Editing or deleting a post will be replicated as well. Now it’s so easy to crosspost!!! Nifty!
  • Live Comment Preview - a pretty pactical plugin. So you can see the resulting comment before you even submit it!
  • Miniposts - An approach to “asides”, or small posts. Allows you to mark entries as “mini” posts and handle them differently than normal posts. Good for one-liners that you don’t want to take up so much space.
  • Recent Comments List - This plugin will add a list of the most frequent comments posted to your blog and sorted by post/entry. Pretty nifty.
  • Spam Karma - It was high-time I needed a third-party to do the dirty job for me. Huzzah!
  • Subscribe to Comments - Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Really nifty if the commenter was waiting for a reply for a question they asked.

I’ll be adding/removing plugins as I use/un-use them.

Resources