Well for something that should have been easy, switching the blog over to Textpattern was probably one of the most rubbish jobs I’ve ever had to do.

It wasn’t anything really to do with TP, more the problem with all the old system which was made with ASP and Access (woo 1997!), and that many parts had to be hand-changed/moved (like images).

The more astute of you will have noticed that there is now a new, whiter design. Do not be fooled into thinking this is a proper theme for this blog, I’ve literally just bastardised the default one in order to have something. There are bugs galore in it, and if parts of the site don’t look right, this is why. I will be doing a full overhaul at a point in the (hopefully near) future, but until then this will have to suffice.

Another thing to note is that although there are a list of categories now listed down the right hand panel, they have not been retrospectively filled yet, but I will be adding new content to these, and eventually relocating the old content.

For those familiar with the site, you will see that the front page now goes straight to my folio website, and that my gallery has had a total overhaul. I am now using Gallery2 of which I have edited the architecture considerably to try and remove the table based layouts and add some semantic code in. That’s unfinished too; I’ve also got a load of new photos to upload, but thankfully there are now RSS feeds you can subscribe to for that stuff.

If you notice some features have disappeared (like the calendar) I am trying to solve this, but at the moment I haven’t found a suitable plug-in. I will try and get it back in the future.

The next part of this blog is an apology. I am sorry to everyone who had to put up with my regular, incorrect spelling of the word “tomorrow” for two years. I’ve only just noticed I consistently have written “tommorow”.

Please, please if you come across any broken links or major problems can you drop them in the comments for this post as I’ve tried to patch as much as I can but any help would be appreciated.

Oh, and one last thing – if you are all wondering why I’m not using Expression Engine (the blog-darling of 2007), I am playing with that too, and I’ve still not made a final decision on either EE or TP yet.