Welcome to the new look of SGTowns.com. This morning I upgraded to the newest version of Moveable Type, the Content Management System that runs this website. I decided to junk the old "look and feel" and upgrade to the default look that comes with the CMS.
As I said a few days ago, I have been looking forward to this new year for a new start in life. And so far, it has been going very well. I feel like I am back on track and back doing the things that are truly important to me. So it's fitting that the online version of my life is getting an new upgrade too, both in the way it looks up front, as well as a behind the scenes improvement to a better publishing platform.
Although I have to say that I am not in love with the new red look or with the reorganized columns, so I will try to tweak it as I have time. But for now, I have spent most of the day backing up the old version of the site, installing the new version and setting everything up to run smoothly, including:
- Fixing the RSS Feeds: If you follow this site in a Feed Reader (like the highly recommended Google Reader or NetNewsWire), please change your feed to http://www.sgtowns.com/atom.xml
- Fixing the Notifications: If you get email notifications whenever this site is updated, hopefully that is now working and you will get an email with this post.
With all these changes, the new version should give me some additional functionality that will make visiting this site easier and maybe even more fun. For example, you can now reply to individual comments, and you can subscribe to comments on a post so that you can see if anyone else commented after you.
All of the journal content from the old site should still be here somewhere, but let me know if anything doesn't seem to be working as usual. My photo albums are not up at the moment, but I will see if I can't get those back online next week.
So... we'll say goodbye to the old blue look shown on the right. I almost feel like I am waving good bye to a friend. Many hours were spent in its creation and modification, and it served me well over the years. But technology marches on and we have to run to keep up.
Oops. We're off to a rough start, it seems. As luck would have it, as soon as I posted this first entry in the new system, I spammed myself. It looks like there were a few times that email notifications did not go out on the old system, and when I published today's entry, all those old ones got sent out too. I received about 10 updates in my email. Hopefully everyone on the list wasn't spammed as bad as that. And if so, my sincerest apologies!
And here's hoping that was a one-time occurrence!