Just a quick update to say that, as you can no doubt see, we’ve made a few changes to Adventures In Digital.
First, we’ve switched from Typepad to Wordpress. Rightly or wrongly, and there are advocates for both, we decided to switch from a hosted platform on Typepad, where we had been for the past two years, into an open source and effectively free environment of Wordpress. This was for more than just the monthly fee - we also have more control over what we do on WP as we’ve got hold of the actual server. Now there are some changes between TP and WP, and they mainly revolve around permlinks - so there is a chance some of the old ones are now broken - hopefully this isn’t the case as we updated the link format in WP to be the same as TP but you never know. The other thing is images - Typepad make it practically impossible to export your images out of their system en-masse, meaning that for us to migrate all of the images we’ve used on adventuresdm.com for the past two years would have taken days and days of manual graft - so we decided not to do this. Instead, we’re going to keep the TP account live for about six months in an hope that old images and articles by that point aren’t visited as much (longtail be damned!) - after that we’ll turn off the typepad account and, with it, all those images will probably break. can’t be helped I am afraid unless Typepad get real and give users a bulk export tool for images (they have a bulk import tool already!).
Secondly, domain name. In order to smoothly (well, smooth-ish) manage the migration to Wordpress we setup adventuresdm.co.uk and are now pointing the .com address at the .co.uk address. Everything should work fine and you shouldn’t notice any change, but again, with this internet thang you never know.
Third and finally, we updated the design to be something a bit more contemporary and interesting. It’s based on an open source Wordpress theme we found on a themes site, and we adjusted it slightly. For those of you interested in what it is the link is in the ABOUT US section.
So, hopefully it’s all good and you like? well, if not, let us know either way and we’ll ignore your comments :) just kidding, but, hopefully it’s been a smooth transition over to a more open source, friendly and flexible (bulk image export typepad come on!) transition.
Howard