Monday, April 11, 2005

All Change

The more alert of you out there may notice a slight difference or two to the page. The overall layout is fairly similar, but I've changed lots of bits to accommodate the handy new stuff that Blogger gives you.

I learnt a lot of new stuff setting up Chav Mum that I thought would be handy here.

Basically I've tried to clean things up, remove the older bits which weren't working anymore, improve the basic CSS, update the links and adopted Blogger's comments and smart pages system. All the old comments still exist, and in time I will export them to a file for me own personal gratification.

The benefit of adapting this system is the reliability of having the comments and blog from the same provider, plus they stay embedded in the page making archiving easier. As the page's now use smart-titles, all me older posts now look a bit skew-whiff due to the fact I always hard coded the headlines in the entry. I've updated all the ones from this year - but lots of previous posts will have strange looking headlines. Maybe one day I'll go through the hundreds of old posts and update them, but I guess not.

I may move the blog to my own domain - but the thought fills me with dread as I'll lose all those wonderful back-links and have to email people to update their links. The benefit is that once again I have all the back-up I need on my own server, should I need it. It?s a big job. There are still a few bugs on this new template that I need to fix. When its done I might make the move. Now if Blogger has an automatic redirect for moved blogs I'll be laughing.

Any comments on the update appreciated.

Posted by Dio Bach at 11:46

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