Out with the old . . .
. . . and in with the new. It’s not that Typepad wasn’t doing it for me anymore or even that I was unsatisfied with their service, but with all the recent changes in my life I thought I’d give SLN a complete overhaul. This will actually be SLN’s third fourth (or maybe three-and-a-halfth?) incarnation. I actually started the blog at the behest of Jerry Bowles, patriarch of the thriving new music website/community Sequenza21, who was at the time recruiting performer-bloggers for his (then) new venture. After a while I decided to branch off and start an unaffiliated blog so I could feel free to talk about cats and bikes and other non-new music-related things. That was the birth of SLN. The blue, gray, and white-colored blog reigned gloriously for well over a year before I gave it its first facelift, trading the blue/gray/white fullness for a minimal white blogscape with red accents.
SLN’s current even more minimal iteration comes from a WordPress theme that I tweaked to my liking. I’ve learned enough HTML and CSS over the years to make the actual layout and design aspects of creating a new blog pretty easy—it took me no time at all to come up with the modifications I wanted. But after having a blog hosted somewhere else for nearly two years, the awful part is transferring all my old posts from Typepad to my own server. Not only that, but within my posts I’ve linked to other posts on SLN, which now requires me to make a note of those posts and then tediously re-link them. Oh, and all the images I hosted on Typepad . . .
At any rate, filling the archives has been slow going, especially on the since I’m currently on the road, where a reliable and fast wireless connection in the hotel is not always the norm. I live for the hotels with an ethernet interface. However, it is nice to have SLN on my own server for a change (perhaps foreshadowing a website redesign). Plus, it’ll be nice to not have to pay Typepad anymore. I’ll miss the TP version of SLN though. But as in life, it was time to move on. Among the changes I’ve instituted include an archive by category as well as chronologically. In addition, comments are now legal! Keep it clean. Suggestions are always welcome—let me know. Enjoy.
October 27th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
looks good, man!