Web site changes

I’ve made a couple of changes to my site.  As you can probably see, I have added my twitter feed to my front page.  I’ve done this because I don’t post to my main blog as much as I used to – I post my thoughts to Twitter (which then automatically get copied to my main web site and Facebook).  I will probably reserve my traditional posts for longer posts.  It was not a simple tasks to intermingle Twitter posts within the WordPress loop, but I eventually got it to work with some sloppy code.   The posts are cached and updated every 30 minutes.

I also am trialing my web site back on a Windows server (previously it was on Linux).  I’m doing this to consolidate web hosts, and hosting on Windows gives me most stuff on Linux as well as ASP.NET.  I generally prefer Linux hosting when .NET isn’t needed, however, this will save me time and money.

There will be bugs with the new setup, but I’ll take care of them as I see them.  I see my Flickr feed isn’t updating, which is probably a permission issue (curse Windows permissions!).  I’ll work on that.

April 9th, 2009  Web Site   Tags: blog, hosting, twitter, update, website, more...

New Site Design

I decided to go with the new web site design that you currently see. There are still some visual bugs to work out, but it’s mostly functional. I think this design looks more modern than my old one, and I think/hope the navigation is more intuitive. I also added widget support to my web site, which means nothing to you unless you’ve worked with Wordpress (previously, I manually added content to the side bar in the template).

December 3rd, 2008  Web Site   Tags: deisgn, website, Wordpress Links, more...

Hendricks Photos Moves

We’ve decided to move our online photos to Flickr. Not all of the photos from the old site are transferred yet, but we’ve been making some good progress. By using Flickr, we save money by using their discounted, unlimited storage place. And while the service isn’t perfect, it does offer a number of features and interfaces that I do not have time nor ambition to implement on my own.

In short, here is our new photo album page on Flickr:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/hendricksphotos/

July 8th, 2007  Web Site   Tags: photos, update, website, more...