Angels 2.0
Over the last few months I've been neglecting the Angels side of things. After the webhost debacle with Fasthosts late last year I began moving all my sites to a new host.
Moving the regular sites was easy. Moving the few forums I have was a little scarier. I run a small forum for work and I managed to move that across in December without any problems. But when I tried to do the same for the Angels it all went horribly wrong. So I left it... and then kept putting it off.
Last week I decided that I really should move it. It's the last of my sites to move. So with a deep breath and a little scouring of the forums I had another go and it all worked fine. Phew.
Once moved, I could now upgrade the forum to the new version of phpBB, version 3. This happened yesterday and it seems to be OK so far. I had a nasty moment when, after two hours of getting it all working, I installed a style that managed to lock up the entire forum and made it necessary for a complete reinstall.. which was a sod.
Anyway, the new and improved Angels Forum can be seen at the usual address of http://www.angelsforum.co.uk/phpforum/
On a related note I also wanted to tart up the Angels website itself. Partly because I wanted a fresh look and partly because it was becoming a little haphazard with pages all over the place and a disjointed look. I also wanted a fresh start with me now officially running the online side of the Angels without Kim as opposed to unofficially doing it :)
I'd been playing with Wordpress since it comes preinstalled with the new host (and free MySql databases too!) and had moved the "angels blog" over from Blogger to Wordpress (which was rather painless... keep an eye out I may do the same here one day too!)
What I wanted to do was base the whole site around the Wordpress theme. It took a little tinkering with some of the code, but I think it works OK for now.
You can see the new look Angels website at http://www.theangels.co.uk
If you have any old links to parts of the Angels site on your blogs, I would suggest you check the links and update any that are broken. Annoyingly with the new host I could now host the forum on the main Angels domain, but the angelsforum domain is so engrained now that it seems silly to move it back.
My next step is to try and get an RSS feed from the "latest posts" bit of the forum - and integrate it on the blog. Watch this space, but don't hold your breath.
Moving the regular sites was easy. Moving the few forums I have was a little scarier. I run a small forum for work and I managed to move that across in December without any problems. But when I tried to do the same for the Angels it all went horribly wrong. So I left it... and then kept putting it off.
Last week I decided that I really should move it. It's the last of my sites to move. So with a deep breath and a little scouring of the forums I had another go and it all worked fine. Phew.
Once moved, I could now upgrade the forum to the new version of phpBB, version 3. This happened yesterday and it seems to be OK so far. I had a nasty moment when, after two hours of getting it all working, I installed a style that managed to lock up the entire forum and made it necessary for a complete reinstall.. which was a sod.
Anyway, the new and improved Angels Forum can be seen at the usual address of http://www.angelsforum.co.uk/phpforum/
On a related note I also wanted to tart up the Angels website itself. Partly because I wanted a fresh look and partly because it was becoming a little haphazard with pages all over the place and a disjointed look. I also wanted a fresh start with me now officially running the online side of the Angels without Kim as opposed to unofficially doing it :)
I'd been playing with Wordpress since it comes preinstalled with the new host (and free MySql databases too!) and had moved the "angels blog" over from Blogger to Wordpress (which was rather painless... keep an eye out I may do the same here one day too!)
What I wanted to do was base the whole site around the Wordpress theme. It took a little tinkering with some of the code, but I think it works OK for now.
You can see the new look Angels website at http://www.theangels.co.uk
If you have any old links to parts of the Angels site on your blogs, I would suggest you check the links and update any that are broken. Annoyingly with the new host I could now host the forum on the main Angels domain, but the angelsforum domain is so engrained now that it seems silly to move it back.
My next step is to try and get an RSS feed from the "latest posts" bit of the forum - and integrate it on the blog. Watch this space, but don't hold your breath.
Labels: angels
posted by Joanna @ 6/03/2008 09:44:00 PM
4 Comments:
At July 04, 2008 9:37 PM,
Rachel said…
Thought about using mod_rewrite to redirect old urls? Just a thought.
Will we see you upgrade your Blogger blog to WordPress?
At July 05, 2008 5:55 PM,
Joanna said…
possibly.. but there are so many old broken links harking back to the very first incarnations of the site I can't be arsed. I've put a custom 404 page up instead. Or is that the kind of thing you meant?
I may upgrade one day.. once I find out how to really hack the wordpress template to look like this one... WP is much nicer in many ways than blogger
At July 07, 2008 4:09 PM,
Rachel said…
With regard to old pages I was thinking 301 redirect rather than 404.
Would love to see you do a whole WP site using their very under-rated CMS, but hey you'd really have your work cut out for the next decade if you did that, LOL.
As things go, it'd be very easy (with a bit of spare time) to convert your present theme - always happy to help if you do go down that route - you've got my email addy.
When are you out next, it's been sooo long since we had a chinwag - mind you, think I'm just as bad for getting out these days. Why is life so busy/complicated? :)
At July 07, 2008 6:49 PM,
Joanna said…
most of the broken pages are ones that dont exist no more... so not really a redirect more of a "go elsewhere"
trying to build a lot with WP pages, kinda OK. Have played with joomla a little too.
Not sure whenI am out next, probably when I've lost enough weight to get back into my tranny clothes :) :) be good to catch up sometime
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