A new look and new technology

November 21st, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

As you can see, there’ve been some changes around here. We have moved from using Movable Type to Wordpress, for a couple of reasons.

First, with over 500 entries and over 1000 comments, the blog was not performing well at all. With Wordpress, there is no publishing to be done, which means articles are posted instantly, comments are updated immediately, and you’re going to see a lot less server timeouts.

Second, Wordpress has gotten good. REALLY good. With tons of plugins, great community and support, and an unbeatable feature set, this software will allow us to take this blog even further. Its editor is Jillian-friendly, as well.

Of course, we couldn’t just update the software without sprucing things up a little bit visually, as well. We even managed to successfully port over all of the old entries and comments. I hope you dig the new design and features, and of course, please let us know if anything goes belly-up.

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  1. Comment by Lauren on 21 November 2007:

    I like it when the posts are attributed to their author. Also I tried to post a comment before and it got errored out.

  2. Comment by HotMBC on 22 November 2007:

    Happy Fanksgiving to Malcolm n Jillian, friends of kittens everywhere, from Millie’s friends at the House of the (Mostly) Black Cats.
    Purrrrrrrrrs!
    Sanjee, Boni Maroni, Mini, Gree and Pepi

  3. Comment by malcolm on 23 November 2007:

    Hmmm, yes, it is weird that authors aren’t being shown. I will figure out how to get that back in there.

  4. Comment by Nick L. on 24 November 2007:

    Hey, have you heard anything from your boss Matt? I’ve heard that another wildfire has broken out in Malibu. Hope they’re okay.

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