I have implemented a bunch of changes in how my web site works. There
should not be any resulting changes in content or addressing; if you
have saved links to any of my stuff, they should still work. It may
look slightly different -- and the look may continue to change -- but
the navigation and the content should still be the same.
If you experience any problems or notice links that don't work,
please let me know. If they are internal, I'll try to fix them. If
they are external, that means somebody else has changed their web
site; but maybe I can find a suitable substitute.
I am also entertaining suggestions for changes to the format. (One
suggestion I may implement is a search capability for the site. But
that won't happen until I'm sure this first transition went smoothly.)
For those of you who do web sites yourself, I have completely
rewritten my content management system. I may put together a document
soon about how the new system works. I'm pretty proud of it, because
it meets a few rather difficult requirements:
* Each file on the server is either pure content or pure formatting.
A PHP program builds the page by combining the content and the
formatting. If I want to change the format, I just change and
download formatting files, and every content page is affected
automatically. (This is the essence of a good content-management system.)
* It allows exactly the same URLs as before to reach the same
content. This is important because lots of readers and even other
sites have links to my content -- and I don't want those links to
break. And I don't want to have to start over with search engines
ranking my pages from scratch.
* It allows me to edit, create, and manage content files on my PC.
The files are HTML content-only, no format, and are arranged in the
same folder hierarchy as on the web server.
Thanks,
DaveT
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