Archive for March 4th, 2009|Daily archive page
Site migration in the future…
…I’m working on a new version of the site, the problem is I have built so much into this site, with tens of categories and hundreds of posts, I don’t want to loose anything that I have written. I know some of what I have built already will be lost but I am just getting tired of Drupal. It’s a great system, don’t get me wrong, but I am in need of something that is more user friendly and built for smaller blogs and not a HUGE content management system like Drupal.
I LOVE Drupal, so this will be hard for me to do even though I know it needs to be done. I can’t spend the time managing the site in it’s current form any longer and WordPress (yes, my previously most hated system) has grown to the point where it’s exactly fitting the bill of what I need. It’s easy to install new modules and keep your system up to date. It already has Askimet (actually Askimet was written for WordPress) so I won’t have to deal with SPAM and I will be able to do the multimedia presentations that I want to be able to out of the box without having to add many modules that don’t always play well with each other and install them from scratch as with Drupal.
I will keep the new site in azbay.net/azbay for now, when it’s ready to go live I will move it to the base azbay.net (I’m posting this if you want to take a look). Once I have the categories and posts moved, I’ll probably archive the old site and drop it.
So what can you look for in the new site that the old one doesn’t have? Pictures in RSS feeds, as well as audio, in other words podcasts. I haven’t had a large want or need for podcasting previous to this but I would like to be able to put together an easy way to distribute movies of Sean and things like that, so a podcast an iTunes is a perfect way to get movies out there if people want to watch (yes I know about youtube, I also know youtube doesn’t allow HD content!)
So keep your eyes on the site. It’s going to change greatly in the next few weeks. And don’t be surprised if it drops off the face of the earth now and then.
