Meta: April 2003 Archives
I just added a lot of old news.
Using the Internet Archive I was able to see my old site again. I copied all the news I had written on this site, and imported them into my new site.
In case you are curious to read them, they are dated from November 9, 1997 until March 4, 2001. Most of these messages are written in Dutch.
Until some months ago, this web site had the possibility to subscribe to the news published on this page. Each time I wrote something new, the subscribers would receive the text by e-mail. Unfortunately, my hosting provider does not allow me anymore to send e-mail.
Today I have added a new solution, hosted by Bloglet. By filling in your e-mail address on the form on the main page, you will receive a daily message with all news of that day (usually not a lot...).
People who haven't visited my website might think that it has changed a lot. But after the big step last week things look quite the same. That is because I am going to make the site in three stages:
- Contents.
I have imported all the news items from my old site. The last days I have reviewed them all and corrected spelling errors, updated expired links and categorised the items. It was fun to read everything again, from moving to Lleida to local culture to reconstructing our house; - Structure.
In the next step I will create the structure: decide which information will be shown, and where does it come. I will start with trhe main page, and then do the archive and individual pages; - Presentation.
The last part will be the fun part. In this step I am going to edit the style sheet to define how each page looks (colours, fonts, borders, images....)
Anyway, plenty of work left for the next weeks.
The worst part of the site redesign is done. I just changed the CMS application form the old NewsPro (which is not supported anymore, the creator is now working on Coranto) to Movable Type. Until now I am very positive about MT, I even was able to import all my old NewsPro posts!
The site now shows the default Movable Type layout and design, which is not ugly at all. The coming weeks I am going to study the Movable Type templates and little by little create my own style.
