Having been bored with the old look of my website, I’ve just updated my website to a newer theme. It’s supplied by my hosting provider (Siteground) and I think it looks quite good.
For those reading this post through an aggregator (or via Facebook), it’s still basically a two-column blue affair. You can visit me at www.ianburnett.com to see for yourself.
Comments always welcome.
Hopefully that should be everything back to normal, with my blog now moved to www.ianburnett.com. Any bookmarks should still work, but everything is now based around my main website.
Possibly the shortest blog post for the amount of work required.
Only in the WWW sense though.
Since this blog was created (way back in October 2007) it has always lived at blog.ianburnett.com. The main idea was that I would have a more serious website of www.ianburnett.com, with my blog being slightly less so. I would also have gallery.ianburnett.com to showcase my photography highlights, plus a couple of private websites for photos of Lucy and a wedding I went to back in 2007.
These days, however, it’s a struggle keeping on top of security for every individual site. Before a brief spring-clean this morning, I had the following:
That’s a lot of admin to look after. Neither do I need a heavyweight main website plus my blog, so they’re merging. This blog will eventually reside at www.ianburnett.com, with an automatic redirect covering any old links you may have. I will be dropping the mostly unknown gallery.ianburnett.com, in favour of a link to my Flickr site (which is now a pro account due to being a BT Internet customer). Let someone else look after the security!
Hopefully, nothing will break during this – bear with me while this change takes place. I’ll post again when things are updated and finalised.
I’ve been sitting here finishing off bits of blog entries which I’ve started recently, but never got round to finishing. Here’s a quick recap for stuff you might have missed.
Furthest back is the cautionary tale of trying to have a shower while in a hotel, although I should be thankful at least that I had lights while doing so. I’ve added some thoughts on whether resolution actually matters in a digital camera, and then been thankful for the most basic of data entry devices. More recently, we’ve been shopping for shoes, but only after my inept display of romance.
Officially, I started writing this blog on October 4th, 2007. So why are there now entries dated before that?
Well on my original website, I made a start on posting some stuff but quickly got bored. The main problem was the use of Joomla 1.0: there was no easy way of posting to the website without going there, logging on, writing the post in a nasty WYSIWYG editor based on a web page. Things just took Far Too Long for my short span of attention. Then I discovered WordPress and w.bloggar (moving on later to Windows Live Writer). Things were good again.
Unfortunately, there was now some stuff on my original website (www.ianburnett.com), and some stuff in my blog. As mentioned the other day, I’ve started rebuilding my website using the new Joomla 1.5 system so what better time would there be to clear out the crud and put it into my blog, which is really more for personal rants and stupidity. That means I can leave my “proper” website for the purpose it was intended.
Everything that’s been moved across from my original website has been put into the category “Migrated”, and the original creation date has been preserved. So that’s why there’s entries before October 4th. You can see them all here or by clicking on the “Migrated” category in the navigation panel to the left.
