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Blog gets a new home

peter — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:50:19 +0000

We’re in the process of making a few changes (big and small) to our company website. It’s an ongoing project but one of the immediate changes we’ve made concerns the blog and it’s address. After the redesign of the site, the blog is now integrated directly into EdenWeb.ie and will no longer link out to this WordPress site. This means all future blog articles will be published directly on our sites’ new blog.

So why the change?

Well, I was never really happy with the break in design a user experienced when they clicked through from EdenWeb.ie to the blog. By having the new blog integrated directly into our new site, we can better maintain graphic, navigation and branding consistency. It’s something I’ve always thought was important but never really got round to doing until we rebuilt EdenWeb.ie with a CMS in the background and I saw how relatively it was to turn one of the sections into a working blog.

I know some of you in the industry will ask why we didn’t just reskin the original WordPress install. Well, the anwser is simple. Basically our new site is running a CMS in the background. I’ve always think it’s much easier to turn a Content Management System into a blogging tool than it is to hack a WordPress blog and turn it into a working website.

Of course, there’s no point in having a blog if you’re not going to update it. With the new blog and site online and acting as a whole, we’ll be updating the new blog and site a lot more.

Thanks for reading!

Word Press 2.5

peter — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:27:06 +0000

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 for my design blog. The only bugs I can find at the moment are the SIFR titles on blogs which are now 1/3 the size. Otherwise, it’s been a remarkably smooth experience. The hosting control panel actually handled everything so finger’s crossed that nothing came undone in the upgrade.

Uploading images

peter — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:17:05 +0000

Michele over at Blacknight Hosting was asking why I FTP each individual image to my blog instead of using the file upload option.
Good question. No good asnwer. I just assumed I had to FTP from my web app. Oops!
Speaking of web applications and FTP, I am reviewing Microsoft’s new Expression Web application. Now might be a good idea to take Michele’s advice and upload a text .jpg of the product box.

If you can’t see a product box below then you will know I still haven’t gotten to grips with this yet!

Missing comments

peter — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:16:55 +0000

Eoghan from Eoghan McCabe design just alerted me to the fact that his comment got eaten by my spam filter. When I logged in to allow his post I noticed that several other comments from Martina Skelly of Activate and Diane Roberts of Enterprise Ireland had also been gobbled up by an over zealous spam filter.

Apologies to those who have posted here recently and had their comments dissappear into the ether. I’ve loosened up the filter a bit and wasn’t ignoring you :O)