Website Overhaul
Everything is different! (But you can keep accessing the blog however you do now.)
Between today and yesterday, I added wordpress and bbpress to my website at “http://www.tekempire.net/“. The users are integrated and the wordpress side allows OpenID logins. (I’m not entirely sure what happens if someone logs into the wordpress side with an OpenID and tries to post comments in the bbpress end. Feel free to try if you know what I’m talking about.)
The reason for the change is because posterous does not yet allow advertising. Oddly, they do allow propagation to wordpress blogs. At some point I’ll put adds on my website. For now though, I’m still tinkering with the appearance.
I added bbPress because I remember I had a forum on my site before that people seemed to like but I got rid of it because I couldn’t figure out how to integrate it with the rest of my website. Anyway, if people are afraid to use the site because they think I’m going to make changes and delete everything again. Don’t worry about that anymore. I’m trying to get into the habit of iterative upgrades. If I want to make a huge change, I’ll first figure out how to recover the content.
The genealogy logins for “http://family.tekempire.net/genealogy/” are not integrated with the logins on “http://www.tekempire.net/” (Hence I’m keeping it on a seperate subdomain). Don’t worry, this applies only to one person right now.
I can technically provide e-mail from my domain (through google apps), but I’m not going to automate the process for two reasons. First, I’m not a fan of spam, and automated e-mail providers usually end up being zombies. Second, I can’t figure out how to integrate the system with the user database in wordpress. If you would like an “@tekempire.net” e-mail address and don’t mind it being a separate system from the rest of the site, just ask me. (Note: If you aren’t family or a business partner, I’ll probably ignore the request.)
Dinner time. Bye for now.