Sidewaysgravity Blog

Once again, I have returned to the drawing board… computer screen, same thing, and I have turned out another outstanding flash animation. Once pixar gets a hold of this custom made flash and realizes the talent contained within this tiny stick figure animation, the job offers will be coming at me like flies hitting your windshield. Or not, but why not shoot for the stars.

You can see the flash on the home page

http://www.sidewaysgravity.com

or you can see just the flash by clicking here:

http://www.sidewaysgravity.com/sidewaysgravityman.swf

Update:

The flash is no longer on the homepage and the sidewaysgravityman flash is no longer there. Click here to see him.

On Sunday night I ran into some technical difficulties with the site. Since I created the site I havent been able to get the rss feeds to work properly. Well I have tried to reload word press several times, with no success. I basically came to the conclusion the the google add that was at the top of the page was giving me some problems. But you can’t complain about ads when your getting free hosting.

Anyways I decided I would upgrade from free to not so free and it fixed my problem. Well unfortunately I changed a couple things that couldn’t be undone, and ended up losing my database files, which means all my posts are gone. If I was a little quicker and turned those gears upstairs a little faster I would have backed up my Database first. But I wasn’t. Hindsight is wonderful. So now I’m starting over again, but this time with rss Plus no more annoying ads. So with all that work I did feel free to subscribe.

If your like me, and had a hard time installing wordpress into a sub directory on your website, you probalby got really frustrated with it not working. I spent several hours trying to delete all the file off the server and reinstall them in the hopes that it would clear up the problems. All in all it was hard, took a long time, and had a very easy and simple solution.

I followed the install directions that wordpress gives you to install it in a sub directory, but it never worked. Turns out the wordpress really just likes to be in the root directory. So quick fix; change the wordpress folder name to the name of the sub directory you want it located in, for instance mine is on www.sidewaysgravity.com/blog/ with blog being the sub directory. Then with your hosting company, have the subdirectory “blog” set up as a sub root directory. Thats all there was to it. After I turned the sub directory into a sub root, everything magically worked and I haven’t had a problem yet.

Update:

This was an issue I had with installing an older version of wordpress and using godaddy hosting. I am pretty sure that this has become much easier, and the problems I faced were most likely related to godaddy. I am using mediatemple now and the install into a sub directory was a piece of cake.

For new years my brother sent me a flash animation that can be found at the following address:

http://www.jaredbailey.com/?p=35

Well his creativity inspired me to take play around with flash for a couple minutes, and this is the product of minutes of hard tedious work.

You can view it by clicking here Flash Begginings