Seems the site decided it was time that it shouldn’t encode the site properly.

Since Southanuk is a relatively old WordPress installation [Around 2006] it was using an old character set, namely latin_1. Converted it to UTF8 and all is now good and properly displaying. Have a few celebratory ‘ , – s.

For others having the same problem with WordPress not encoding pages properly, I recommend the bbWP2UTF8 plugin. Its very simple to use and is a lot easier than this method, although saying that, it may work if the plugin doesn’t.

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Well something went wrong very shortly after I had posted this, post numbers weren’t auto-incrementing. Should be all fixed. Also discovered a very nice MySQL command to help convert those troublesome characters to UTF8:

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME = replace(ROWNAME,'’','\'');

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME= replace(ROWNAME,'…','...');

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME= replace(ROWNAME,'–','-');

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME= replace(ROWNAME,'“','"');

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME= replace(ROWNAME,'”','"');

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME= replace(ROWNAME,'‘','\'');

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME= replace(ROWNAME,'•','-');

update DBNAME

set ROWNAME= replace(ROWNAME,'‡','c');

[Source]

GEF follows shortly and possibly something on Monday if I can get it to work.

From today, or whenever your DNS updates, Southanuk is now hosted with Kualo.

Got a very nice deal with them and lets see how the next year goes!

I must excuse my absence from updating this blog. This has been due to my exams. [You may have guessed that already, but what the hey]

I’ll be catching up with Google Earth Friday shortly and keep an eye out for some developments that will be happening to Southanuk very shortly.

Its 11pm now and I want to get to bed, as I was kept up till 3am this morning by some noisy people.

Ta-ra.

So recently you may have noticed I bought myself a brand new HTC Desire. Since then I’ve been striving to get this site to display properly in the web browser.

To achieve this I used the fantastic WPTouch made by BraveNewCode. A very simple and easy to use plugin that requires hardly any configuration. Its very easy to add new user agents of websites I wanted to target and looks great too! You can also integrate your Twitter account into it using their other plugin WordTwit [Unfortunately I don't use that on this blog, but I'm sure its up to the standard of WPTouch.]

To try it out on your mobile device, point your camera to this QR code and give it a scan, or just enter m.southanuk.co.uk to view it also.

What’s all this you say? Well Southanuk today has some new features that should make your stay much more inviting and interactive.

Facebook’s new “Like” button

As announced by Facebook at the recent F8 conference in the USA, the new like button can be easily added to web pages and adds instant integration with the ever popular social networking site.

I found it very easy to integrate indeed as per so:

• Add an instance of Facebook’s Javascript SDK to your website’s source code. Ensure you have an application ID from Facebook also or the button will not work.
• Generate your like button here and click “Get Code” and select the XFBML version and copy the code.
• Then simply add the button code where you want in your site’s source code and you’re done!
  • [WordPress blogs] instead of putting in a URL, add the following into your loop:

As you can see, very easy indeed.

Disqus Comment Plugin

Finally, the latest addition to the site is the very versatile, Disqus commenting system.

I felt that my old plugin I used was too bulky and was rather unessacary for just simple commenting. People don’t want to have an account for every site they visit, so allowing them to use their current Facebook, Twitter or OpenID accounts means less time registering. You don’t even need one of those accounts as posts can still be done via Guest with no account whatsoever.  Try it out next time you fancy having a little comment.

Stay tuned for more updates via following me on Twitter @fatjoe151

Hey all!

Been some time since I made a ~Featured~ post.

Read more to find out what’s new to Southanuk in 2010.

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Hey all its your funtime friend Joe!

Sorry for the lack of posting, decided to have a nice quiet Christmas and New Year.

So what has happened?
Got a nice shiney new 40 inch Samsung TV, chilled over Christmas and basicaly did nothing.

Hope you all have had a good Christmas and New Year!

Joe out!

To celebrate Southanuk’s History, I’ve compiled a short history of Southanuk.

Just click “Read More” to… read more!

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Now with working theme!

As you can probably see, or not if you are blind, I have rejigged a couple of things and got rid of that terrible grey background on the whole site. The comment form now works perfectly and a redesigned login bar is there for your use. Other bits here and there have been messed with and should look a bit nicer.

Enjoy

Notice it or not, Southanuk has had some tweaks applied to it.

Most notable is in the comments section where the comment form has been completely restyled and properly supports Facebook Connect in Internet Explorer 8.

Little tweaks to the site may appear every now and again, if you like, do tell, if you don’t… do tell!