Welcome everyone! In case you are wondering, you are not in the wrong place assuming you were expecting to read the latest Life Intrigued post. However, you probably noticed the place got a bit of a sprucing up. This change was not entirely initiated by my grand plan. Nope, it was really a bi-product of my website hosting service having to be renewed. The back story is rather lengthy, but the condensed version goes like this. My hosting company doubles your initial fee at renewal – that translates in my $5/mo cost to $10/mo. Sounds like a simple thing until you see your three year bill going to ummm one. two, carry 1 , divide by .652 multiply by 7.2 and then multiply by a complement matrix…… $360 big ones. Nothing is too good for my loyal readers, but at the same time I figured that math out I was staring at their web page advertising a $5/mo charge for new accounts. This tends to piss me off – for being a loyal customer for over 9 years I get to pay twice as much as a new customer. This was not acceptable and after a rather lengthy time on support … I was paying the new customer rate… with one little caveat. I had to move to their new servers. Sounds innocent enough, turn on new site, copy files from old server to new and presto back in business. Maybe in a perfect world ruled by flying blue monkeys… but not the reality I live in. For the last couple of weeks it has been extremely stressful around here trying to re-implement my blog services, deal with address and domain changes while doing my best to keep disruptions down. The good news (as you can tell) the hard part is all done now and the conversion is pretty much completed. There are a few fringe issues that I’m dealing with, but it is operational enough for me to start posting again and allowing comments. I hope you like the new look and feel. For the most part I modeled it as close as I could to the old flow but sexed up a bit with a more professional theme. Big thanks to my brother Ron who helped me get the kinks out while trying to adapt all my old customizations to the updated theme. Let me know what you think and if you see anything that isn’t working right – no promises I can fix it, but pretty impressed with all the issues that have been resolved to this point.
Your new blog looks fantastic! I wish this theme was available on WordPress.com where I moved my blog with a similar excruciating effort. I’m way behind on your blog now, but I’ve got the rest of Christmas break to catch up.
So congratulations again on your new blog home!
Ron
Thanks. There are a few annoyances I am still trying to get accustomed to, but for the most part I am pleased with the end product. I definitely like your suggestion to border the images, it adds a touch of professionalism to the over all blog (just wish I could apply the same polish to my written content hehehe). We’ll see how this goes, but it is definitely at a point now where I am thinking about releasing it to a broader audience. I’d probably have to tone done some of my personal opinions which is the only thing holding me back at the moment.
Thanks again