Welcome to the New Site
11/12/2005 04:53 Filed in: Miscellaneous
I've spent the last two days completely transferring everything from my blog and main website to what you see here. The advantage of this arrangement is that everything is together: blog, photos, file downloads, etc. Since more people go to my blog than any other part of my site, it now resides on the main page.
Feel free to explore around. Anything that was available before, should still be here. Note that older blog entries are archived. You can search for them by hitting the subject link or the date link in the column on the left. I've done my best to try to make sure that links are working, but if you find something specific that is broken, let me know.
You can get here simply by pointing your browser to http://thislamp.com. The old blogs are still mirrored where they were to begin with for the sake of certain permalinks that pointed to them elsewhere on the net. But new entries will be added here from now on, not there.
Unfortunately, in copying the blog entries to the new software, I was not able to retain the old comments. However, I am still using my same Haloscan account, so therefore, the old comments are still contained in the Comments Feed. By the way, if you are tracking this blog by RSS, you will also need to take note of the new feed for this site.
By the way, the new site is completely done with RapidWeaver, which I highly recommend. Over the past few years, I've created sites in a number of applications, including PageMill, FrontPage, GoLive, and DreamWeaver. For the past two or three years, I had been using Apple's .Mac Homepage templates for my website and iBlog for my blogs. But I had to link these two to each other. Further, although I had been using the .Mac Homepage templates for ease of use, I was frustrated over lack of control. RapidWeaver creates the perfect balance. I have to do very little HTML coding, and the site has a consistent, professional look. RapidWeaver is not perfect yet, and I have already left a number of suggestions in their forums. But I believe that it is just about the best tool I've ever seen for what it does.
Please give me your feedback, and enjoy the site.
Feel free to explore around. Anything that was available before, should still be here. Note that older blog entries are archived. You can search for them by hitting the subject link or the date link in the column on the left. I've done my best to try to make sure that links are working, but if you find something specific that is broken, let me know.
You can get here simply by pointing your browser to http://thislamp.com. The old blogs are still mirrored where they were to begin with for the sake of certain permalinks that pointed to them elsewhere on the net. But new entries will be added here from now on, not there.
Unfortunately, in copying the blog entries to the new software, I was not able to retain the old comments. However, I am still using my same Haloscan account, so therefore, the old comments are still contained in the Comments Feed. By the way, if you are tracking this blog by RSS, you will also need to take note of the new feed for this site.
By the way, the new site is completely done with RapidWeaver, which I highly recommend. Over the past few years, I've created sites in a number of applications, including PageMill, FrontPage, GoLive, and DreamWeaver. For the past two or three years, I had been using Apple's .Mac Homepage templates for my website and iBlog for my blogs. But I had to link these two to each other. Further, although I had been using the .Mac Homepage templates for ease of use, I was frustrated over lack of control. RapidWeaver creates the perfect balance. I have to do very little HTML coding, and the site has a consistent, professional look. RapidWeaver is not perfect yet, and I have already left a number of suggestions in their forums. But I believe that it is just about the best tool I've ever seen for what it does.
Please give me your feedback, and enjoy the site.