As you can see, if you’ve been here before, I’ve re-jigged the site. “Ah, it’s the same content, just a new WP theme,” I hear you cry. Well, to a certain extent, that’s true, from a user standpoint, but the foundations upon which the site sits have been overhauled.
I was with another hosting company for this here site for quite some time. They had a pretty sweet deal – a year’s hosting, plus a .com domain for something like £30 a year. However, it was all run by one guy out of his house using one of those ‘Reseller Hosting’ packages, and I guess he stopped giving a toss about the hosting end of things. Maybe he was having real life problems. Maybe he was eyeballs deep in his day job. Who knows?
As a result, I decided to up sticks and find a better host. I found a nice company called Vidahost that had a similar deal to my previous host, but is actually run as a business rather than a side project. Their customer service has been very good, and as a result, I decided to jump on board. Bit of a pain in the arse getting the neilmcdougall.com domain transferred over, but that’s now well in progress, and should cause no further issues. Best part is, I’ve paid for my hosting up front for the next three years (on a three years for the price of two deal). £60. Wahey! Bargain get!
Been footering about with themes and whatnot, and settled on this nice chunky effort. The site’s had a white-on-black vibe since I started it. Can’t seem to find anything colourful that tickles my fancy. *shrugs*
At the time of writing, some of the links in ‘My Music’ don’t work yet, need to get files re-uploaded and renamed.
So, onwards into 2010, and hopefully more blog posts from me! Huzzah!
Edit: Yes, I know the header image is guff. I knocked it up in 5 minutes. Any Photoshop wizards are free to submit new ones to neil@neilmcdougall.com
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If any of you are familiar with the old neilmcdougall.com, and know a thing or two about web design, you’ll know it was distincly last-decade in its execution – laid out with tables, done in a WYSIWYG HTML editor, basic graphics, no Javascript, XML or any of those fancy modern doo-hickeys.
Look-wise, it was fine – nice and clean, no flashing ‘E-Mail Me!’ animated .gifs, ‘UNDER CONSTRUCTION’ banners or scrolling/flashing text, but it was a bit of a pain in the arse to update, frankly, and I wanted to make some use of more up-to-date web stuff. Seeing as I know next to nowt about CSS, XHTML, Javascript or the like, I decided to do what countless other people have done, and whacked WordPress onto my website.
It’ll be a lot easier to update the site now, seeing as I spend far more time in a web browser than I do in Dreamweaver or the like, and I can use Firefox plugins like Scribefire to update it without having to log in to my site. I hit the wee icon in the toolbar at the bottom of Firefox, I write a post, and boom, it’s up on the site. Yaaas.
So. add this here site to yer RSS readers, ’cause you’ll be hearing more from me, on a multitude of subjects, ranging from music, to sports, to whatever other shite I feel like writing about.
This entry was written by , posted on April 1, 2009 at 4:43 pm, filed under design, musings, Site and tagged design, me, new, Site, thoughts, wordpress. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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