If you can read this, then I’m one very happy camper.
I’m pleased to announce that Chez Fred now has a legitimate home.
For the longest time (well, really, always, until today), fredsmythe.com was merely a domain name, which redirected to whatever free web space my ISP gave me. It always felt kinda fake, since it wasn’t REALLY fredsmythe.com, it was actually clemon79.home.comcast.net with a pretty decoration on the front door.
Well, a combination of some of The Four Of You mentioning to me that all too often they couldn’t get to the site, me being incredibly frustrated with the shortcomings of Comcast’s free web space (mostly the lack of server-side include capability, though I suspect as I play with this new space I will find quite a few other how-did-I-make-it-this-long-without-being-able-to-do-this-type things), and the recommendation of my friend Peter at Static Zombie caused me to kick a (very reasonable) few dollars to webhostingbuzz.com for some real honest-to-God digital real estate for Chez Fred.
And, amazingly, it’s been really easy to port the site over. Granted, it’s not a big site (certainly not as much stuff to move as Peter had when he did it), but I was afraid there would be all kinds of stuff to fix and hierarchal stuff to worry about and what not. Nope. Most of it just copied right over, and I’ve had to spend maybe an hour total noodling with the Blogger and Frontpage publishing settings. I anticipate having more problems getting Bloglines fixed.
The difference to you? Well, the site already seems twice as responsive, and up there in the address bar, you’ll see you are in fact at fredsmythe.com now, which is a big thing to me; I felt kinda like a fraud before. (And if you catch any broken links (and I’m sure I left some laying, although I’ve always tried to make site links relative instead of absolute for just this reason), please let me know.)
So, welcome down. Now that I have no excuse not to do all of the modern stuff people do with web sites these days, I guess I should go learn how to do it…
The four of you should play Tichu.
I’d play Tichu if I had any clue as to how the game works. :)))
Are you sure you’re alive, Chris/Fred? I mean, monthly updates hardly indicates signs of life.