I have recently been learning several interesting things about website optimization, and will be making some changes around here as a result. To my two readers (hah) I offer a friendly note that my site may be wonky off and on – I’ve never been good at migrating to new themes and formats carefully. I’ve recently purchased the Thesis Wordpress theme and hope to integrate some new elements such as a “popular posts” listing and “related posts” listing as well. Although I wavered on investing Thesis initially, I realized that it would be to my great advantage to finally admit that I won’t have the time to really develop a nice theme and layout that is usable, standards-compliant, beautiful, and optimized for search engines and other methods of bringing some traffic in. So Thesis is a better solution from people who have done an excellent job already.
Changes To Come
Posted: September 23, 2008 at 11:55 am
Entry Categories: Site Updates
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jamEs 09.23.08 at 11:59 am
I just checked it out, looks like a pretty cool template. I’ve been itching to redo a couple of my sites lately, so I’ll probably be doing a sketchy switchover at some point too:)
erica 09.23.08 at 12:02 pm
James, you’re quick
I know it would be better to do it carefully and gradually but chances are I’ll just throw it through and hope for the best, just like I always do.
I keep meaning to use my XAMPP to test locally first but… nahhhh… who wants to do things properly anyway
jamEs 09.23.08 at 12:38 pm
I use Digsby to show notifications for Twitter to me, so I saw it right away.
I find since I setup MAMP to test locally it was handy, though it kinda screwed me over when I wanted to test live and I didn’t know how to sync the databases. I would suggest setting things up on a live testing domain. I found it just makes things a little less fly by the seat of your pants. But if you didn’t just wing it what fun would website relaunches be?:)
amber simmons 09.23.08 at 1:24 pm
Heh, I was just going to recommend a local testing environment
I personally don’t like testing on a live server because I prefer all my stuff to be local, and I hate transferring stuff form local to live to test. (I also don’t like the editing options for my server.)
erica 09.23.08 at 1:28 pm
Hm maybe I should work harder at configuring Aptana to automatically sync by FTP so I can use a test server. Yes I admit I can’t be bothered to FTP back and forth manually while testing
Stephen 09.24.08 at 2:29 am
Two readers? I now count three.