January 8, 2009
Migrating Sites and Photo Galleries
Posted by: Gregory Vedders In: Greg's Ramblings ()
Over the next few days to weeks, you may notice some changes to the Vedders Chronicles. I am in the process of transitioning the site from a WordPress hosted site to Blogger. You may be asking yourself why I would do such a thing, but really the answer is quite simple. For the first part, I am trying to simplify how posts are added and maintained on the blog. In the past, the site hasn’t always been updated as often as it probably should be. One of the major reasons being that I always had to make sure that my software, plug-ins and themes were up-to-date. Without the need to maintain the software myself, it should become easier for me to stay on top of updates for the site. Gone are the days of worrying about software exploits in my installation of WordPress or any of the third party plug-ins that I may have installed. I have also noticed some sluggishness in accessing the Vedders Chronicles in my WordPress install. In a time test comparison the load time of my DreamHost hosted WordPress install takes a full 10 seconds to load the main page. Similar load time comparisons with Blogger have showed that the load time is somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 seconds.
Due to Blogger limitations to prevent spamming, I am slowly migrating my old posts from my WordPress install to Blogger. If all goes well, I should have everything up and running by the middle of next week.
In addition to the Blogger move, I am also in the process of transitioning to Google’s Picasa Web Albums for my photo hosting. I’ve always liked hosting on Yahoo’s Flickr, but now that AT&T no longer pays for a pro account for me and Picasa now supports face recognition, I’m feeling more comfortable hosting my photo galleries at Picasa Web Albums. For the last few weeks, I’ve put the same photos on Flickr and Picasa Web Albums as a comparison to see which site I like better. I’ve found that the Picasa Web Album is much easier to organize and viewers of my site find it easier to navigate as well. The full migration of photos to Picasa Web Albums will probably take longer than the migration of the Vedders Chronicles.
At any rate, I appreciate your patronage and hope to see you back soon at the new and improved Vedders Chronicles.
