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New Look and an Anniversary for Random Connections

Posted on April 5, 2008 By Tom 2 Comments on New Look and an Anniversary for Random Connections
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It being a rainy Saturday morning, I decided to update this website. First, I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (v 2.5) which was set loose into the wild just this week. I’ve been having a few glitchy problems with this site that I had hoped 2.5 would fix. The new admin interface and multimedia capabilities look very slick. I’ll have to play around with them a bit before I decide how much of it I’ll actually use.

I also decided to change the appearance of the site. Laura really liked the Kandinsky print I use on the old theme, but I figured something else was in order. I’m still tweaking a few things, such as how to get my photos to show up the way that I like.

Overall, the transition is going smoothly. Some items from the old theme may not work in the new version just yet, but I’m sure I’ll have it all sorted out shortly. In the meantime, consider this the new look for the site.

And on another note, my first blog post was almost exactly five years ago. The first blog was a bit of ASP hand-coding with a Microsoft Access database. It was incorporated into a rambling mess of a website called Taylor Digital Arts. Random Connections got started a year later before we took our cross-country drive to Washington State. The first version of Random Connections used the same ASP code I had written for my first blog. In fact, I just imported those blog entries into the new database, combining the two. It didn’t take long for me to realize that my coding skills are not what they should be, so I switched over to WordPress and never looked back.

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2 thoughts on “New Look and an Anniversary for Random Connections”

  1. Ken C says:
    April 6, 2008 at 7:05 pm

    I like the way the previous pages listing is showing up again at the bottom of the page (I use Opera, and this was not displaying more recently). The kandinsky was a favorite of mine too, but sometimes change is cool too. Good luck with the new software.

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  2. Stephen says:
    April 7, 2008 at 6:01 am

    Well, stay away from Random Connections for a couple of days and you’ll never know what you’ll find on return. Updates are good, and your’s looks nice. I know you’ll keep tweeking it. You do make me think I ought to switch from blogspot to wordpress. All the wordpress blogs I’ve seen just look neater, and neatness has to count for something!
    BTW, thanks for the pdf on the Holmes book.

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