This redesign has been a month-long project of squeezing in a few minutes here and a few minutes there between the rest of my life. I’m happy to say it was fun to re-think how to push my site into its fifth version, and after a few solid years of blogging and being behind the wheel, I’m happy with this result.
I’m still running Wordpress — which is even better than ever now in version 2.6 — and have applied WP Super Cache for public-facing pages, plus Google Gears for local “turbo” mode. Overall, the pages are on this new site are startling fast. The Flickr photos in my footer are cached smartly, too, thanks to FlickrRSS.
The biggest switch of all is the move to a new domain: markhealey.org. I own the .com and the .net variations, but the .org suffix is most perfectly suited to this new site. It was fairly easy setting up .htaccess files to handle the heavy lifting for the many hundred of permanent redirects needed to get from markhealey.net to markhealey.org. One side affect of this switch, is that your RSS reader might show a few dozen “new” posts — sorry ’bout that. There shouldn’t be a single hiccup but be sure to let me know if you experience any issues.
Drop me a line and let me know what you think of the new digs. The old site now lives at v4.markhealey.net.
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