…new host…fresh start

June 27, 2006 | Published in: Personal | Tags: , 0

Well, I must say this was a really, really long exciting week.

If your a returning visitor you may notice something with Blue anvil… yes it has been hacked apart and wordpressified.

After giving up with 1&1 web hosting (not value for money at all) ive switched hosts and redesigned Blue Anvil at last.

What have I done?

Well the main difference is the lack of cutenews and the introduction of wordpress, which I taught myself last week.

Its still not finished, and Im sorry if your using IE friggin 5 because I havent done my testing/hacks yet, Ive just been too busy.

I also have to do the portfolio section *again* which should leech more of my time.
But look on the brigtside, Blue Anvil is now:

  • Simple
  • Easier to use
  • Not as blue
  • Has more content
  • Has me adding content

Well thats it but…heres some random things I came across that may come in useful to you!

Godaddy and my htaccess woes

This consumed most of my time, my permalinks would not work.
I contacted support, I searched the web, I got stressed out, all because mod_rewrite would not work.

Want to know why it wasent working?

Lack of patience.

It seems godaddy do have mod_rewrite as they kept telling me, but you have to wait an hour for a new htaccess file to work!

So that consumed lots of my time because I kept deleting and recreating it to try to fix it!

Ordered list Feedburner Plugin

This again would not recognise my feeds, it just gave me 404’s constantly. I solved this by ending my contract with 1&1, somehow they were holding back my nameservers from my new host (dont ask me Im not into that kind of thing).

A great list of plugins Im using on Blue Anvil

This is a list of the plugins I have installed to make wordpress even greater!

So thats it for this entry, please feel free to post your comments on the redesign, and Ill update you all again when ive given up Im finished. Thanks for reading!

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