I’ve been playing around with some new blog scripts and thought I give this one a test drive. Let me know what you think. I still have to come up with a user friendly photo album script that most of you can operate and a few other perks.

The physical move that was estimated to take 4-6 hrs turned into 15 hours. Everyone’s email and website should finally be back online and working properly. If you are experiencing any site or email problems, please let me know as soon as possible.

The Chatham-Kent Firefighters Association chose last night as the official launch date for their membership’s website. They wanted a live demonstration at city hall’s council chambers, to demonstrate the workings and features of their new website I made and host for them. I was told “all the equipment would be provided and all I had to do was show the guys how to use the forum and gallery… very casual laid back atmosphere, don’t worry”.
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I’ve finished all the template changes I wanted done to our new blog. If you are experiencing any readability or usability problems, please let me know so I can correct them. If you have pop up blocking enabled (via third party software), you might have to add “4tg.ca” to your white list so you can see the comment form. I promise you’ll never see popup ads originating from our families’ site.

There was some concern about losing the “click for smilie” option we enjoyed with the old forum script. I don’t like the current smilie script hacks available for MovableType so for the time being, you’ll have to use the sidebar link that pops up the cut/paste codes for smilies.

F.Y.I. our currently featured icon in our title bars is… a picture of Rosemary and Catherine using the loaner car this past summer.

Welcome to our new software location for our blog. For the time being I’m going to leave the default template (look) as is until I get all the bugs worked out. Don’t be surprised if things work a little strange until I get this software modified to my liking. In the mean time post away and don’t forget to update your bookmark.

Not Martha and I… just our web hosting computer. I’m upgrading to a larger reseller package, but remaining with the same great hosting company. I was running out of server room because I picked up a few more clients that require web hosting. You may see a few moving hiccups for the domain 4tg.ca (web and email), but the others should move transparently. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.  
 [EDIT Dec 6th] DONE!There were a few hiccups but all seems to be working now. I hate server moves!

I’ve been holding off upgrading our sites Greymatter blogging software until today. If you find any problems reading or posting, please let me know as soon as possible. You will find a few new features but hopefully most things will still look familiar.
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The web and email servers have successfully been moved to the new Texas data centre. The domains are now resolving correctly if you are reading this post. For more details about the move see “The blog leaves Pennsylvania“.

The software to the photo album has been changed/upgraded to protect against a recently discovered security hole. If anyone has trouble using (uploading to) the album please let me know. You might notice minor changes in the photo album layout plus everyone’s admin privileges, only apply for albums in your folder. Most recent thumbnails reduced to only 5 to reduce load time for this page.