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January 24, 2006

New Domain Home

I'm pleased to announce that I'll be moving the server. Hopefully it won't be too obvious to you all. Right now, if you go to http://longboredsurfer.com it actually forwards you on to a subdomain of http://pablonoesta.com. So, even though I own the domain name, I don't have it hosted on its own. I'm stepping away from that though, and I'll be moving it to it's own hosting place.

So here in a couple days, when you visit LBS, it'll actually be in the right place. I'm looking forward to it, since it'll be a good move forward for the site. I'm contemplating overhauls of both sites, since neither of them really serves any unique purpose. I'm wanting to clarify that, which will undoubtedly mean some sort of overhaul of the content. Just a little FYI for those who might actually care.

By Pedro on 9:45 AM | 8 Comments

8 Comments

What kind of overhaul are you referring to? What distinct purpose will each site have? Why are you giving LBS its own host?

Clifton | January 24, 2006 2:37 PM

You might be interested in this: www.joomla.org. It was formerly "Mambo." Supposed to be a pretty good, open source, MySQL-based CMS. Lots of development happening with it. Take a look.

Clifton | January 24, 2006 3:30 PM

It'd be mainly a content overhaul. The problem is that right now neither site seems to have a distinct purpose. LBS seems to have grown more into an extension of my soap box on PabloNoEsta. It's a bit less formal, which is what I was really aiming for in the first place.

Pablo's dominant content (in quantity, not necessarily disk space) is recipes. With a continually growing collection of them, I might make one of them dedicated to food and that sort of thing.

Since PabloNoEsta was originally invented for being a personal site, I might keep it that way, and move the recipes over here. If that's the case, then this look will go over to pablo so that it gets more of the personal site touch.

Not really looking for yet another CMS. I already have 2, and a third would really be wild. If I go for recipes, I've already been looking at PHP Recipe Book. Still haven't gotten much of a chance to mess around with it. Time's been a little sparse.

My short answer is: I don't know what I'm going to do to either domain, but I need to separate them so that something gets done.

Pedro | January 24, 2006 3:35 PM

Hmm...

Sounds like you need a third domain.

1 - Longbored Surfer: Tech stuff, soapbox, random stuff [Blog].

2 - Pablo No Esta: Family stuff (maybe make this a branch of LBS) [Blog].

3 - Pedro's Recipe Shack Recipes. Make it sweet. Make it commercial once it's big [CMS].

Just an idea or two...

Cliftonite | January 24, 2006 3:50 PM

Yeah.... unfortunately that's how it's sounding to me too (3 domains). I'm just not looking forward to buying another domain. So far just the one has been enough to mentally track (both the content and the CMS markup).

Pedro | January 24, 2006 4:15 PM

How come your "pedro" in "pedro said..." is a blue link, but my "cliftonite" in "cliftonite said..." is a green link? It's a nice effect, just wondering how you did it. Either you assign a different class to your own name or the class alternates every other comment.

Don't do 3, just integrate family stuff into LBS. You could either make a new category (like you did with Cecilia) or create another blog and make it look integrated with a "Family" link at the top. This would require some site navigation, of course.

Clifton | January 24, 2006 4:24 PM

It's blue since it's an unvisited link. Apparently you get to this blog by going to the subdomain instead of typing in LBS. I wish I were cool enough to assign a color just for me, but I don't think MT is smart enough to differentiate between me commenting on my own entry and somebody else.

I would still have 3 domains, but I see what you mean about having it be the same-ish. It'd be similar to what you're hoping to pull of for your personal/work blogs. Still on two domains, but acting like one. Fair enough... that wouldn't be too bad at all. Guess I'll have to start thinking over what my recipe site would be called...

Pedro | January 24, 2006 4:36 PM

How about:

foodbetterthanstarwars.com
yummytomytummy.com
deliciousdishes.us
sooooogood.com (gotta have 5 o's or its taken)
prettymuchthebest.com

I'll keep thinking...

Getting a domain name is hard work these days.

cliftonite | January 24, 2006 4:46 PM

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