Website moved
For many years my IF website has been at http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/. Lately, things had gotten to the point where making that look nice and also contain all the content I wanted was a bit overwhelming, so I tried redoing the thing in iWeb.
Glurg. This was a mistake: iWeb pages have horrible, *horrible* CSS underlying, and besides, it quickly became a bore having to rebuild and reupload the website every time I wanted to change anything; iWeb doesn't seem to cope as nicely with incremental updates if you're not using a .mac account.
Upshot: I spent some time investigating my options, and I've moved to a Wordpress site:
http://emshort.wordpress.com/
This has almost all of the same information as the iWeb site, slightly moved around; on the other hand it gets rid of some display issues, lets me be slightly more flexible, and raises the storage ceiling on what I can have on my site. (Back when I joined mindspring, 10MB seemed like kind of a lot, you know?)
If this turns out to suck for some reason, I still have the ability to put things back to the way they were. But so far I'm liking this system. I've stuck a bunch of redirects into the mindspring.com site to try to prevent 404s on the most commonly linked-to pages, but if I missed something and you find yourself wondering what happened to my website, that's what.
Final note: I'm not devoted body and soul to the particular appearance I wound up with here, but one of the nice things about wordpress is that I can go back and slap a new CSS theme on it later if need be. I just haven't obsessed too much over the look of it yet.
Glurg. This was a mistake: iWeb pages have horrible, *horrible* CSS underlying, and besides, it quickly became a bore having to rebuild and reupload the website every time I wanted to change anything; iWeb doesn't seem to cope as nicely with incremental updates if you're not using a .mac account.
Upshot: I spent some time investigating my options, and I've moved to a Wordpress site:
http://emshort.wordpress.com/
This has almost all of the same information as the iWeb site, slightly moved around; on the other hand it gets rid of some display issues, lets me be slightly more flexible, and raises the storage ceiling on what I can have on my site. (Back when I joined mindspring, 10MB seemed like kind of a lot, you know?)
If this turns out to suck for some reason, I still have the ability to put things back to the way they were. But so far I'm liking this system. I've stuck a bunch of redirects into the mindspring.com site to try to prevent 404s on the most commonly linked-to pages, but if I missed something and you find yourself wondering what happened to my website, that's what.
Final note: I'm not devoted body and soul to the particular appearance I wound up with here, but one of the nice things about wordpress is that I can go back and slap a new CSS theme on it later if need be. I just haven't obsessed too much over the look of it yet.