2006.01.13
Flipping the Switch
19.55.24 - Mark
When I started writing my own blogging engine a few months ago, I had three very clear goals.
Get off Blogger.
Keep my Content.
Keep the links working.
I met the first and second goals back in December when I flipped the switch here. The last goal has been sitting on the bench waiting to see if anything failed horribly here. Fortunately it hasn't, even if things need occasional fixing, so I just switched on my Blogger Redirect Engine.
Because I coded everything, it was really easy to set up a redirect engine by putting a HTML Refresh in my blogger template that points to the look up script. With the refering URL, it can instantly figure out where the user needs, no matter if it's my index page, an archive file, or a post and it moves them there. Nice and simple with no demand on the visitor.
It might have been possible with wordpress, but it would have been a lot more work, and I liked the challenge of coding my own blog engine. Control is good.
So long Blogger. You're great for beginners, but you gotta do something for your serious users.
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