I’m currently in the process of moving my main website over to the new system of Joomla 1.5.

This should hopefully be reasonably easy to do, given there wasn’t a great deal on there in the first place. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

As you can imagine, life with a 2-week-old baby is a little more busy than in my pre-parenthood days, hence the couple of recent posts which have been back-dated to cover what’s been happening recently.

Things are starting to settle though – we’ve had a good day out today doing various bits of shopping and Lucy seemed oblivious to the fact that we’ve been in the car, in and out of shops and then driving back home. Quite content there in her car seat and pram.

Way back when, I wrote that I would summarise the choices made about the various transport systems we’ve chosen, and that will be the subject of a post in the very near future (near being a relative term for a new parent, not the “normal world” mind you).

Well, sort of.

I’ve been meaning to sort out my web hosting account for a while because I’ve got a load of sub-domains (some temporary, some permanent), which were starting to become difficult to manage. Today I spent some time rearranging the account space to make things much easier to organise.

It’s only a case of moving some folders around, updating the DNS records, and pointing the internal links to the right location, but the trick is knowing what internal links to change and what the reference should be changed to.

Everything should work as normal on my web site, apart from I’ve un-embedded my gallery from my main website. What used to be referenced as www.ianburnett.com/gallery has now been migrated over to gallery.ianburnett.com. There’s a permanent redirect in place, which should let people fix their broken links.

Following on from yesterday’s discovery of Windows Live Writer, I wrote about how smart the preview option was.

Now today has seen an update from the Windows Update service, which improves on it even further. It can now make it look exactly like a new post has been added. Whereas yesterday it replaced the last post for the preview, it now works out what the blog page will look like and constructs it without overwriting any previous posts. To gain this magical functionality if you’ve already installed it, go to Weblog -> Edit Weblog Settings… -> Editing tab and click the "Update Style" button. Say yes to the test post.

I am now very, very impressed.

I logged-on to Windows Live messenger today and a new version (8.5) has become available; of course I’ve downloaded and upgraded immediately.

One of the optional extras it offered on installation was the use of Windows Live Writer which is a tool for publishing to your blog, much in the same way as I do at the minute with w.bloggar. What the Windows Live writer app offers me is the ability to do WYSIWYG editing, even down to downloading the style sheet used for my blog and rendering in exactly the same way.

It’s also very smart in the preview window – for example previewing this entry re-uses the last entry I wrote (entitled “No Baby”), but swaps the text around as if this entry were already published (click for full-sized snapshot). Note that in the preview, the “No Baby” post is missing and the text of this entry replaces it.

Now that’s quite smart.