Comments on: Please Excuse the Dust… Upgrade in Progress!

By: Selene M. Bowlby

Selene M. Bowlby — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:27:48 +0000

@Josh – Thank you for the great compliment! BTW, I love your Sexy Bookmarks Plugin – it’s by far the best designed social bookmarking plugin that I’ve seen.
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By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:23:12 +0000

Hi there, just wanted to let you know that I normally can’t stand pink on black but your site seems to pull it off quite nicely!

Very well done!
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By: Selene M. Bowlby

Selene M. Bowlby — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:50:21 +0000

@Brian – Thank you! It was kind of funny, actually… I had several comments from people about the portfolio pieces – I had to go back and see what was posted through Twitterfeed, as I had no idea those all went out!

@Mike – Very minor design changes – things like widening the content area and increasing the font size, for example. I’ll soon be tweaking the comments area, as well.

The biggest change (and likely a detailed post to follow) is that I combined the site and blog to 1 installation of WordPress. I had started the blog before converting the main site to WordPress. At the time I thought it was too much work to try to combine the separate WordPress installations into one, especially on a live site, and while risking a broken link nightmare.

Since I was switching hosting companies this time, though, it was the perfect opportunity to merge both parts of the site into one. It didn’t come without it’s hiccups (that I’m still working on, LOL) but the timing worked out well.

@Andrea_R – LOL, well that is good! It’s odd how random the posts are that came out too – I hope they were good ones. I noticed another portfolio piece from months ago pop up in my feed this morning, so I’ve obviously still got a bit of work to do.

@Andrew – I’m not sure on the loading times – it seems about the same as my last host, which was Rapidsite / Verio. I have a client on MT, and it seems about the same there, too. The main reason for my move is that Rapidsite was on much older servers using old versions of PHP that prevented me from using some of the newer plugins that I’ve had my eye on.

I’ve had an account with Blue Host for quite some time now as a testing ground – I figured it was as good a time as any to make it official. It’s much more inexpensive and they give you a lot more disk space, which is great. Although they say you get what you pay for so I do hope I made the right move. I’m very happy with their 24/7 chat support, though – while Rapidsite has 24/7 support, it’s only via phone or email, and the email option has gotten much slower over the years (from responses within a couple hours to a wait as long as a couple days).

So far, so good over on Blue Host, though. It’s just a matter of me working out the kinks.
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By: Andrew Kelsall

Andrew Kelsall — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:43:09 +0000

Hi Selene, good to know things are well with you. Just a question, would you say Blue Host provide better loading times for WP users? I’m on (mt) at the ‘mo, but it;s good to keep my options open
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By: Andrea_R

Andrea_R — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:39:06 +0000

Well, I enjoyed seeing all the posts, because I hadn’t read them before.
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By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:53:14 +0000

Design change too? or just content & items like that? And yeah, nameservers are weird. Sometimes they go in 20 minutes, sometimes it’s 2 days. good luck with getting everything in order

By: Brian Yerkes

Brian Yerkes — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:26:56 +0000

Good Luck with it Selene! I just noticed all of the twitter posts that got shot out from your feed!
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