If you are seeing this then you're arriving at my blogs new home. It is now hosting using Movable Type 4 as apposed to 3.
I have to say I am very impressed with MT4, the user interface and additions like widgets and widget sets has a big impact in the general ability to customize things, previously I had to rely on a whole lot of PHP snippets to do what I wanted, I'm glad to say there is no actual PHP code in here except for my few photo galleries etc. URL's though have to include the .php bit to keep my links valid.
The migration as a whole took maybe 3 or 4 hours, but this included moving my wiki, galleries and maps to a new server as well.
A few things have fallen away now, I have only one RSS feed for everything where previously I had one for photography related stuff, one for non photography and one for everything. I had very few subscribers to the specific ones so I figured there is little point in keeping them around.
MT4 finally has proper tags support and a tag cloud, I'll start using it but will need to go through my almost 400 old entries to add tags if I really want it to be useful, so still not sure if I'll make the effort.
It's probably only for my own sake, but I've made a screenshot showing a full copy of my old blog here.
I have to say I am very impressed with MT4, the user interface and additions like widgets and widget sets has a big impact in the general ability to customize things, previously I had to rely on a whole lot of PHP snippets to do what I wanted, I'm glad to say there is no actual PHP code in here except for my few photo galleries etc. URL's though have to include the .php bit to keep my links valid.
The migration as a whole took maybe 3 or 4 hours, but this included moving my wiki, galleries and maps to a new server as well.
A few things have fallen away now, I have only one RSS feed for everything where previously I had one for photography related stuff, one for non photography and one for everything. I had very few subscribers to the specific ones so I figured there is little point in keeping them around.
MT4 finally has proper tags support and a tag cloud, I'll start using it but will need to go through my almost 400 old entries to add tags if I really want it to be useful, so still not sure if I'll make the effort.
It's probably only for my own sake, but I've made a screenshot showing a full copy of my old blog here.
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