Published on
October 12, 2008 in
Website.
…is designing the website!!
Everyone has a time in their life when they realize they want to redesign their website. Oh you haven’t? Well fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I have a creative side… I really do. But sometimes I feel like I get ‘designers cock‘. No not ‘block‘ because that would just be silly. The community has gone through many changes; dating back to PGM days, we’ve had many different styles. When GATM came around, the theme was very anti-political and rebellious. It was very rich and had tons of graphics and tried to express a mood… but it lacked functionality!
So I get this idear! LETS GO WEB 2.0! AWESOME DUDES! Yeah, so that worked out great. Now we have a totally functional site…
*long annoying pause*
…but it lacks any passion at all!
So I need to find a happy medium between the two. Passionate and functional. Completely new design? Who the hell knows anymore.
Published on
October 12, 2008 in
Website.
God. I don’t think anyone understands the complexity of moving webhosts… especially if you actually have a lot of content on your existing site. I currently host like 5 different domains; what a pain in the ass this is going to be. Most webhosts provide a free service to move it all for you, but the thought of having someone rummaging around in my site files is a little unnerving. Pain in the ass or not, I want to do it myself… plus this gives me a chance to clean up a bit.
I started off by moving my primary domain (foszor.com) and getting that all setup. I updated the DNS last night and today it had already fully propagated. I totally spaced setting up my email information at first… I wonder how much email I missed out on. Who cares, I don’t feel like buying viagra anyways.
With all these issues, why did I change hosts?. Simple answer: my previous provider sucked the largest of dicks. The cPanel was wacky, the support was… well decent at best, but the best support is support you don’t need to use (meaning the site just works the way it should work). Most importantly, everyone (yes including me) had page load time issues. Sometimes it was just really slow, or failed to connect, or loaded the text and images took forever.
I don’t how some companies survive with poor management like that.
Edit:
Shit I’ve already had a few moments where the page wouldn’t load… hopefully it was on my end or maybe because I recently changed the DNS. *crosses fingers*