{"id":361,"date":"2005-07-08T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2005-07-12T01:07:22","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T23:07:22","slug":"welcome-to-the-blogs-new-home-fun-and-games-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/welcome-to-the-blogs-new-home-fun-and-games-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Blog’s New Home (Fun and Games with WordPress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here we are, at the new shiny url www.ewanspence.co.uk<\/a> with an update to the blogging software. A whole bundle of little reasons have finally put enough pressure on me to actually get this change done.<\/p>\n

First of all, the URL. Yes I know that name URL’s are quite popualr (Russell Beattie<\/a> and Cameron Reilly<\/a> to name two) but I’ve been quite happy posting my stuff under the Symbian Diaries subdomain for some time. Of course when that started (and intertia is a wonderful thing) the blog was just a dumping zone of thoughts. Now that I’m working on my own, both for sites like All About Symbian<\/a> and other freelancing stuff, it’s important to get my profile up, keep it visible, and promote myself a bit more. I’ve plans for the whole ewanspence.co.uk<\/a> domain to take care of that – the new blog is the first step.<\/p>\n

For a long time this was going to be Movable Type 3<\/a> (MT3) because I was pretty happy with MT2.66 over at Symbian Diaries<\/a>. Unfortunatly I couldnst make head nor tail of the installation instructions. Rafe fought it for a good 24 hours or so, and eventually admitted defeat. I played again, go t no furhter and thought, hmm, I’m happy in WordPress<\/a> (it powers The Podcast Network<\/a>), so I wonder how long it would take to try an install that?<\/p>\n

Short answer, five minutes. Five minutes after that I had imported all my old MT blog posts. Another 5 minutes and I had a new theme\/UI from over 50 GPL’ed ones. A quick change of colours from red to blue, re-jig the top picture, and “The All New Ewan’s Musings” is here. There’s a lesson in there for SixApart<\/a> – I was all ready to purchase a single user licence for MT once I had dry run tested MT3…. looks like a donation to WordPress<\/a> is on the horizon.<\/p>\n

More changes on the horizon as I remember more of the little reasons I wanted to change – can you all say comment and trackback spam – but there’s already a few in palce. Technorati<\/a> Tagging<\/a> for one (see the bottom of each post) and hopefully a slightly faster posting rate with more depth than before. I think the theme is going to stay, but I might widen out the column a bit more and tweak it slightly. As of now the top level domain name will be redirected to the blog, but as I’ll be adding a few more ‘blogs’ into the system (I’m already thinking of one that will simply link to every online article I write as a sort of living CV) that will eventually become a mix of a disambiguation page, feed reader for all the blogs under the site, and (of course) a ruddy great big Lego Avatar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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