gerrod.com has successfully been migrated from DiscountASP.NET to SeekDotNet. Unforunately the domain transfer won’t go through until Monday, and then updates to the nameservers won’t take place for another 72 hours. So until then, everyone’s RSS and Atom feeds are more than likely broken, and the address bar of your browser will look a little funky too.
For those who are interested, here’s a list of new features and what-not.
- The most obvious – an all new look and feel (skin).
- New photo albums and album management, written by yours truly! (Previously I was using a horrible free component that Bender found on CodeProject.) I haven’t got around to re-uploading all the old albums (or even many photos into the ones that I’ve put there), but that will all come with time.
- New searching functionality. At the moment I’ve only written 1 search provider, which searches the articles, but soon I’ll upload the photo, link, and event search providers. Basically that means that pretty much everything on the site will be searchable.
- Story splitting, which allows a summary to appear on the main page with a “Read more” link to see the rest of the story.
- A new object mapper – instead of ORMapper I’m now using NHibernate.
- A new database server – finally I’m powering off MSSQL instead of Access, and boy does that add a whole bunch of extra speed.
- Changed from HTML 4.0 Transitional to XHtml 1.0 Strict. This means the site should be more cross-browser friendly, and it also means that the “HTML 4.0 Valid” image is no longer true
. - Lots of little bug fixes, and plenty of new Admininstration functionality.
Enjoy!
5 comments
The new site looks fantastic!
I like the index on the left rather than the right…perhaps because I am left handed, perhaps because Word has its document map on the left. The only plus for the right is if you print the page and the paper is not wide enough, then you still get the text (or at least have a better chance of getting the text)…
I like the photo of you guys at the top of the comments page! Nice!
I like the new look and feel!
Woah, the time difference was strange – my comment appeared before Michelle’s even though her’s was up there first. By the way, an interesting <a href=’http://gerrod.com.r.seekdotnet.com/blog/’ rel=’nofollow’ target="_blank">domain name</a> now. Is that just temporary?