So even though I was planning on scrapping the site originally, then compromised and decided to keep the old site but stick it at archive1.elvisripley.com so it could still stick around, I have now fixed it so all my old links work with the site. So if your browser was set to go to elvisripley.com/blog that would work again but you would go to archive1.elvisripley.com/blog and as another example elvisripley.com/blog/2006/06/24/dmc-l1-best-camera-so-far would work in case you were curious what the best camera made so far would be. (as of June 2006)
I just did all those examples so I could also see if it worked and have a quick access to a group of links to click and see if it works tomorrow. It should be pretty stable going forward and as long as I don’t have a /blog or /content everyone should be alright. All of the /blog links were from my WordPress based site and the /content links were from my Drupal based site. It would have made a lot of sense to create an archive when I moved from WordPress to Drupal but I didn’t think about it at the time or maybe it didn’t matter.
The big 3 blogging platforms are WordPress, Drupal and Movable Type. I am now on Movable Type after trying the other two and am pretty impressed. It made a big shift in the last couple of years and has adapted to the way the internet has grown. Those are things Movable Type says and it seems like they are right.
Filed under: loose , drupal, mt, review, site design
Here is a comment test. It looks like everything is working and I am going to take this site live. Probably in a few minutes. I think the way it will work for now is elvisripley.com will just point to elvisripley.com/b and that will be it. I will later add a full page to elvisripley.com which will be a sort of about me and resume with some about and classy photos.
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