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BATS Website

Published at Sunday October 29, 2006 in Drama and Tech Stuff. 0 Comments

So I’ve been working on the BATS website recently - http://www.bats.uk.net/ If it looks familiar then you’d be quite right as it’s based on Wordpress - the same blog engine that I use on xanthein.net.

So, why did I use a blog system for a “normal” website? Firstly, you have to understand what the old website was like. Designed completely in static HTML, edited using MS Frontpage - a design straight out of the 90s. From looking at archive.org it looks like the site was updated once in 2003, once in 2004 and once in 2005. In 2006 I took over running the website and only managed to make one change before deciding it was too much work it its current form! Continue reading ‘BATS Website’

Wordpress

Published at Thursday March 2, 2006 in Site News and Tech Stuff. 0 Comments

So, having just changed my website again for the umpteenth time with no real content updated - what am I using this time?

I’m now using Wordpress and I’ve upgraded to Gallery 2.  It seems a pretty clean way of doing things.  I’m especially happy I was able to import all my existing posts (via RSS) and also that my Gallery upgrade was pretty easy.  Everything is nicely MySQLified and runs neatly on pretty much any LAMP server (which is what I’m running it on).
Still trying to get my head around trackbacks and pings, but I’m getting there slowly!  I am going to make more of an effort to update this regularly, honest!