Philip and Colleen’s Blog
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Hello World (retake)
Oct 29th
Well…been gone from our own website for nearly a year. Now that Colleen and I have settled down in one place, I’m out of excuses, and need to get back to the blogging. I’m sure nobody’s left to read this post, but if there is, keep watching, I’ll post updates and pictures as we start to enter the holiday season.
New Blogging Engine (Again)
Dec 7th
As you probably noticed, our site’s changed its look again. Last night I had our hosting company, 1and1, spin up some Linux/MySQL server space for us. Colleen and I decided that we didn’t like the lack of flexibility that iWeb gave us. It also turns out that we’ll be able to save some money on hosting since Apple’s MobileMe individual account only allows a single website, which would leave Colleen’s portfolio without a home.
After a bit of research I decided to give the WordPress engine a try since there’s a ton of different themes and widgets available.
If you want to leave comments on the new blog (and we hope you do!), you’ll have to create an account which will live locally on our database. This means that your account will only work for this blog.
Update: Colleen convinced me to leave our comments open. You don’t need to create an account to let us know what you think.
New Blogging Engine
Aug 24th
So Colleen and I have been using Blogger for the past couple of years. Recently we started having some problems with our hosting company (1and1), so I began looking around for another option. Since we got a new Mac last month, I thought we could give iWeb a shot.
My conclusions so far: if you just use iWeb’s templates as they are right out of the box, it’s fantastic and easy to create a site. However, if you are like me and you like to customize the look and feel of the template, or add additional functionality like Google Analytics tags, it can be a significant pain.
We’re finally launching our revamped site, complete with all of the original posts after working on it for the past 3 weekends.
Let us know what you think by dropping us a comment below.