Update 8/27 8:45 PM: The post footer and comments are fixed. You should be able to comment now; my apologies (anonymous comments are moderated for now if you’re commenting for the first time, but I check frequently).
Update 8/27 7:45 PM: This seems like a better template (i.e., it displays what is given to it) than the high-contrast one we were using for a couple of days. The header photo (the Clinton nuclear power plant in Illinois) should be replaced with something that doesn’t look like an endorsement of a company’s business practices, but the overall “floating-rounded-rectangle” layout seems to work well; what do you think? Should this look be maintained when we switch to Movable Type (it would be used for everything–the (threaded) forums, main site, blog, etc.)?
Update 8/26 2:45 PM: Posts (except one; which one it is we don’t know; we’re tracking it down) and comments up to April 10th have been successfully imported into our new WordPress installation. What’s left:
1. Comments: those who have been here before know we had a huge spam attack in mid-November 2007; fortunately, the import script timed out before any spam comments were imported, but unfortunately it also stopped before any comments were imported that were submitted after April 10th. Those will be copied and pasted once I figure out how they’re saved in the database.
2. Sidebar links, scripts, etc.: those will also be coming, but being content-complete is higher on the list.
3. Template: those who have been here before know that the site did not look like this. Rewriting the old template in the WordPress templating language will take so much time that it’s not likely to happen (and given that it’s not our template anyway, it might be illegal). The current plan is to use WordPress as a step toward Movable Type, so the current look is temporary. Honest.
4. Once we’re content-complete, said content will be transferred to a Movable Type installation, which we hope will work.
5. If MT doesn’t work, we’ll try Drupal.
6. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to write a CMS.
Sorry about this page not being here; we’re converting the old Blogger site to WordPress and then to either Movable Type, Drupal, or a hand-coded system. Meanwhile, we’ve reverted to niof.blogspot.com (temporarily–please don’t change any bookmarks or links) while we set up the new software over here and get the import/export bugs ironed out.
We should be up in a couple of days. Thanks for your patience.
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Posted on August 21, 2008 by Stewart Peterson |
