Ben Michael Ward is a Web Developer in San Francisco.

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Did you see a black cat twice?

They’ve changed something

Yes, it finally happened. The migration to Wordpress was a success, I’ve tweaked the default theme to look less obviously like the default theme and now I’m free to start the task of re-designing. How long has that taken, eh?

The old blog code is still present, however a meaty .htaccess file should be translating everything from old to new. I’ll remove the b2evolution installation after I’m convinced that it works! I’m only providing an Atom feed on the site. All legacy formats from the old blog are being fired off to FeedBurner.

I’ll blog the migration process in a few days (including the technical reason for the change in blog terminology to journal. It’s not just to sound arty, dontchaknow?).

Obviously this isn’t my CSS:Reboot (though it might be easier for all involved if I said it was). It’s the first advance stage of it though and it makes sense to migrate early to make theme development that bit easier.

The best bit for me? That ghastly Read More graphic is gone. I never could find which bit of b2Evolution I needed to hack to remove it.

By all means please click on lots of stuff and see if anything’s broken. I’ll try and do a round of fixes next week.

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4 Responses to “Did you see a black cat twice?”

  1. Comment by Hanni

    October 7th, 2005 at 12:42 am

    Nice one Ben. I’m glad that the move went relatively smoothly!
    You’ve also managed to make a very nice looking site by modifying kubrick—not something you see often!

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  2. Comment by Steve Marshall

    October 7th, 2005 at 9:08 am

    Good work mate, although this theme looks mighty similar to another one I know pretty well…

    Is the technical reason for the change in blog terminology to journal by any chance I wanna be as cool as Steve? :-P

    FYI, I’m currently porting my theme to WordPress and trying to clear as much markup cruft (by both killing it from templates and by plugin creation) from the output as is humanly possible…

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  3. Comment by Steve Marshall

    October 7th, 2005 at 9:09 am

    Oooh, how’d you get your URLs working that way, dude?
    I’m pretty taken by the /journal/articlename format…

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  4. Comment by Ben

    October 7th, 2005 at 11:40 am

    For permalinks, go to Options ? Permalinks.

    Mine are set up as follows: For post structure I have /journal/%postname%/ and for categories I have /journal/categories.

    Very quickly, the reason for Journal is that on this hosting, creating a sub-domain called blog (as I’ve been using for about 15 months now) creates a folder in the root of the server called blog. This took priority over having /blog in my permalink structure so none of the links worked. I couldn’t remove it because I need to keep the redirection in place and I can’t change its name because we don’t get that level of control on this host. Perhaps Dreamhost would be a good idea

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