How I Spent My Weekend
In case you hadn't noticed, I made a couple of "minor" changes around here over the weekend. And by "minor," I mean I blew the whole thing up and started it from scratch. It looks (mostly) the same from where you're sitting, but I switched blogging platforms and made other significant changes on the back end.
A couple of things that might matter from where you're sitting:
1. I probably broke your RSS feed. It wasn't intentional and I'm still not entirely sure how I screwed that part up, but I did. Sorry! I love you! Please re-subscribe if it doesn't start updating on your old subscription automatically!
2. For now, comments are making you type in your information each time you come here. While that is a major pain in the ass (trust me, I know it is), it should be a temporary situation. I need a little more time to install a better comment system, but I'm not sure when that is going to happen. Brain=KABLOOEY when I started looking at it.
I made the switch for a couple of reasons, and none of them are because there is anything wrong with using Blogger. Blogger is/was a great platform, and you can't beat the price (free!). However, it was a pain in the arse that email addresses weren't always passed through with comments (if I never replied to one of your comments, that was why--I couldn't!), and that many people reported having trouble getting comments to post at all. In other words, the things you have to say do matter to me and I didn't like that I couldn't always convey that to you. Problem solved. (Hopefully.)
For what it's worth, I switched to Squarespace. There are some really good reasons I chose it (and I had been looking at it for several months), but I'm still blaming Mr. Lady for convincing me to jump off the cliff.
If you find anything broken, wonky, or just want to whine that you hate it all, please let me know.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Reader Comments (15)
Ooooo, pretty.
Wow! Clicked thru from Twitter and was blown away! Kudos on keeping old posts intact, etc. Looks good! I hope it all works out for you, and that you get everything you want out of the comment system.
A) It looks lovely.
B) GOOD JOB!
C) I'm doing a redesign of our blog, likely next weekend. Or, you know, midweek if I decide that I'm a moron. So I'll be KABLOOEY too.
OH, PS. I said to FireDad the other day, "I wonder when M is going to write about the baby part of BurghBaby.com." Because I talk about you like we're best friends and he knows your name. Win. I like the new tagline. Good call.
Blog looks great! I guess in Pittsburgh we were all stuck inside and working on things like this because of the snow. I actually have a new blog up and running and I'm looking to connect with other Pittsburghers! It would be great if you checked it out. I'm also linking your page in my blog list.
http://www.kommittedtokarma.blogspot.com
My RSS feed died! I was scrolling through my Reader and noticed that I hadn't seen anything from you for 3 days. 3 DAYS! So glad I clicked over! I love the new layout! And yes, the commenting thing is a pain in the rear, but I read so many WordPress blogs that require the same steps, so it isn't that big of a deal.
And she will always be your baby - whether she is 4 or 14 or 24!
Ooooh, shiny new website! Pretty! It didn't break my RSS feed, woot! AND I didn't need to re-subscribe!
It is very, very pretty! And awesome! With pleasing color schemes. Also, I lurve your new comments input section thingy. FWIW.
It's pretty. Learn me how to do this :)
(the only thing it's not letting me do is enter the URL for my blog. It keeps telling me it's invalid/unrecognized format)
I had the same situation as firefly... I was wondering why there was no post in 3 days for Burgh Baby on my blogroll. So now I know. Your link is revised and in good order.
Good luck w/ working out all the kinks.
well.
that explains EVERYTHING!
lookin' good, though.
It just hit me this morning, "Hey, it says that Burgh Baby's Mom hasn't updated in 4 days! That cannot be possible", so I came to investigate.
WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE.
I finally got around to looking at my Google reader and found only 3 posts (yeah, I'm that far behind) and nothing in the past week. I've got it all fixed now. I may not read you every day, but I try to catch up when I can and I would so miss all that happens in Burgh Baby's world. BTW, love the new caption under the title. :-)
I found it rather odd that you hadn't updated your blog in almost two weeks. Duh! You really did break your feed, but I figured it all out now. Glad to see you aren't off in Tahiti for winter break. Ha!