Hello and hi there folks.
If you view my site at it's true url (http://www.anderwparnell.com), you’ve probably already noticed a drastic change to the look of the site. It was old, and in desperate need of an overhaul, so I did just that.
But if you're seeing this entry, you're most likely looking at my old blog, either at blogger, or through an rss reader.
The new urls are http://www.andrewparnell.com/blog for the blog. and feed://andrewparnell.com/feed/ for the rss feed.
For years I’ve been powering the blog side of things with a blogger account, and my portfolio was a handwritten xml database. Because of this the blog was well maintained, but the portfolio, which was the splash page to the site, became neglected pretty quickly.
There were also a lot of things about the way the portfolio was handled under the old site that I didn’t like, including that I didn’t provide a good way to link directly to individual entries, nor did I provide a good indicator of new content. Not that that was an issue, since I almost never updated it.
All these things have been addressed in the new site. I’ve ditched the lighbox portfolio gallery that was so popular when I built the old site, and opted for individual pages for each entry.
The newest portfolio entry is now being publicized on the header of the home page and blog, and the latest blog post is visible on the front page.
I’ve also switched from being blogger driven to WordPress. I never had a single complaint with blogger, but the way I was getting my data was more than a bit kludgy, pulling the blog content from an RSS feed, and reformatting it to fit my needs.
Moving to WordPress I’m giving up my worry free data backup, but I think it will be well worth it.
Anyway, that’s all I have to say on this topic. If you have any thoughts / feedback, I’d love to hear them.
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