The New Pad

Quite a few changes around Turn That Shit UP. I've been working on this new version off and on for the past few months, and I've got to admit, I'm pretty pleased with myself.

The old site was powered by Blogger, which was a great service (not to mention free), but I'd pretty much taken it as far as it could go. I really wanted to have more control over stuff like archiving and CSS functionality and whatnot, and Blogger just wasn't up to task. This new version is powered by Typepad, and it's quite a bit more powerful.

Lots of cool features around - check out the photo albums on the right for starters. The interface and the archiving are much better, and I've rigged up a couple of other nifty tricks as well. My fellow nerds will appreciate the full RSS functionality and the trackback capabilities. Yeah, I know, not that big a deal, but it's the little things, right?

Sadly, I couldn't move all the comments over from the old site, and it seems as though most of the links to images were screwed up somewhere along the way. I've gone through and fixed the recent ones, but most of them are just going to be chalked up as a loss.

Finally, as most of you know this site is mainly political in nature, but that will soon be changing as well (70 days and counting...). If everything goes according to plan my wife Fiona and I will be selling most of our crap and going on a big huge adventure, and this site will follow us along.

Please let me know if anything is broken or if you have any ideas on how something could be improved. And most importantly, thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy the new site.

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Posted by SmooveJ Zao on June 21, 2004 at 10:45 PM in TTSU Maintenance | Permalink