I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Welcome to the new site!
February 7, 2006
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You may have noticed that I’ve been something of an absentee over the past week and change. There are two reasons for that. The first (and not nearly as good) reason is that I’ve been busy with other stuff, most notably school. And indeed, that thing called “life” has in general kept me on my toes for much of the week. If you’re at all curious about what I’ve been up to, you can check out some of the recent activity at these other sites I run:
- Lost Sosaria, where I’ve been busily adding new “stuff” to the Neverwinter Nights module I’ve been building for the past couple years now.
- My CMPUT 299 project, the Neverwinter Nights module that I have to build for my game design class
- The CHRTC 451 forum, which I built for another of my classes, this one a theology lecture on modern creationisms.
The other reason I’ve been kind of absent, besides being busy with those things above and with other things besides, is that I’ve been preparing a new website for launch!. That’s the site you’re looking at now, the product of a few months of design, testing, and CSS refinement. But I think, at last, that I’ve got it where I want it, and so here it is, brand new and ready to rock.
So anyhow, you might be wondering why I went to the new site. There are a few reasons, not the least of which is that I thought it was time for a change. However, there were a few other considerations, some worth mention:
- The move to the new site let me switch away from Mambo 4.5.0 and upgrade to Mambo 4.5.1. I realize that may not seem like a large version number increase, but believe me — it is. Mambo 4.5.1 offers me a larger degree of control over the site’s content and its display than 4.5.0 did, and it features more dynamic templates as well. Plus that, there are a few site components for 4.5.1 that weren’t available for 4.5.0. Chief among these are the Tip Jar and the Verse of the Day visible on the right sidebar.
Please feel free to make use of the Tip Jar, especially! I can always use the help!
- The opportunity to use a fixed-width, visually dazzling template was too good to pass up.
- The Chesterton Quote Machine was something I was able to re-adapt as an actual site module instead of simply inserting the extra PHP code into the sidebar in the actual page layout. That means I can move it around the site if I feel like it…and given that some of the random quotes are quite LONG, that may eventually happen.
- The main domain page, www.timeimmortal.net, has sat empty for too long now, or rather has been un-used for too long. I’ve developed it out somewhat in the past, but in practice it’s only ever been an RSS aggregator for other Time Immortal sites that I post to. And I’m going to re-implement that feature shortly, because that’s sort of an end goal of what the site is for as well — it will be my blog, and also where you can come for news snippets from other projects I work on.
But for the moment, it was just important that I get the main site back in use.
And so the old site is officially “closed”, and will be maintained only for posterity. In the next week or so, I’ll be sending out emails to all the folks who link to me asking them to update their links (as it were), but in the meantime welcome to the new site, and I hope you enjoy it!
