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• 47 posts and 87 comments.
• 1,385 spam comments.
• thousands more link spam.
• 1 site design revision

Other notable accomplishments/projects hosted here were:

• My first WordPress plugin, wpSermons. This is a plugin intended for use in church websites that use WordPress to manage their content. It allows users to easily add mp3 sermons to their website at any time for all to listen to and download. Since its launch in May of ‘07 it has been downloaded about 500 times and is being used on multiple church websites here in America and around the world (and even some non-church websites that found the audio uploader to be just what they were looking for). In fact, I saw one person who make his own audio plugin based off of mine. I thought that was cool.
• BJU Online March Madness Bracket Content. I had about 20-25 people join in on a March Madness bracket contest for BJ students/faculty/staff. Everyone paid an entrance fee and the money went entirely to the BJU Bible Conference offering which helped to pay for the completion of the parking garage as well as the new entrance to front campus. Participants logged into the site to set up their brackets and view their progress as the contest progressed.
• BJU Coffee Tycoon. This is probably my best programming achievement to date. I’ll let the site speak for itself, but here’s a little info. Between 80-100 different students (about 50 at the most at one time) were playing this game where the object to sell more coffee on BJU campus than your competitors. The game is played in real-time during the course of the semester. You choose a location on campus to be and start selling coffee. Campus events dictate which spot on campus is more popular at any given time. It’s a strategy game where you must determine what to sell, how much to sell it for, and where to sell it at while at the same time keeping an eye on your competition and using your profits wisely to outfit your coffee stand with “enhancements” that attract more people to buy from you. It was a lot of fun and I’ve talked to several people that told me they spent a few hours strategizing with their friends as to how best to play the game. They were very competitive to say the least! The best part is that it’s not time consuming as you might expect. If you’re a BJU student, try it out next semester. It will continue to run in future semesters as long as people like playing it.

All in all, not a bad year for PeterAnglea.com. I hope you enjoy reading this site as much as I enjoy putting stuff on it.

For more information, visit www.peteranglea.com/wpsermons/. I look forward to seeing people use it.

Update: Please leave all support questions on the WordPress site – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpsermons/ – so that all can benefit. Comments are closed here. I will try to post some help and/or updates to correct some bugs some users seem to be having.

If you don’t know what the commencement contest is all about, here some info on that. Each year, the university holds a contest in each of the divisions of the school of Fine Arts. Every piano major/principal is expected (ie. required) to participate in the piano competition. We must pick a piece and prepare it without receiving any help or guidance from any of the piano faculty, especially our teacher. The run-offs for piano were tonight, and the semi-final round is scheduled for next Monday (the 12th). The winners of each of the commencement contests perform in front of the entire university family during commencement week.

Enough about piano . . . in other news . . . I’m working on an update for this site. There are some quirks about the design that annoy me (as a web designer), and I’m looking for a fresher, more readable layout. It’s almost done. That should come as time allows this semester. I’m also working on another client for xHTMLpro.com. And . . . this is my first post using WordPress 2.1 since I upgraded a week or so ago (Fantastico made that real easy). It’s great. I love the auto-save feature and the tabbed editor.

That’s all for now.

Why did I feel the need to have my own personal domain (branded with my name, no less)? The reasons are many.

• I’ve always wanted my own domain. But besides that . . .
• It’s becoming the norm for people nowadays to have a personal website/domain name for practical business and/or communication purposes. It is my hope that this website will be my virtual representative on the World Wide Web for a long time to come and that people (my family, most importantly) will be able to keep tabs on my business, my music, and my life in general.

Why do it now?

• Because of special discounts offered to me by my favorite webhost, SiteGround LLC.
• To give myself a Christmas present!
• Because domain names are getting snatched up faster than you would believe (even with a last name as “weird” as mine).

So here’s the low-down on this site.

• Powered by WordPress as a Content Management System. I originally was looking to have WordPress power only this small blog on the home page, but decided to expand it and use it to its full capacity. This required that I . . .
• Make my own WordPress template. This is actually the first template I have cooked up for WordPress. I think it works pretty well. The actual design is a slight modification of a template entitled nonzero by NodeThirtyThree design that I found at OWD.
• This site is Valid XHTML. You should view this site with at least a 1024px resolution so as to avoid seeing only half of the site at once.

One other thing you should know. I love getting feedback! So please leave comments, contact me, email me, whatever! I look forward to hearing from you about what I put on my site. Thanks again for visiting!