Site Progress

[elfs]

As I've noted before, I'm in the process of revising the site. I'm not going to pull any punches about it: I'm trying to make the site pay for itself and the ocassional cup of coffee, something it has barely done five years in a row. The Journal Entries site is mostly done, and I now have a styled HTML page with a copyright notice and a templatized header, a non-styled HTML page with no template and no graphics, a plain text edition, and a complete set of (pre-rendered) PalmDoc formatted versions suitable for the PalmOS readers. My reader of choice is CSpotRun, and all of the pages look great in that. I'll also be putting up the PDF editions as soon as I get the PDF generator up and running; that might be in a few weeks.

I also have to make the same setup work for the Bloody Beth and Aimee sites, so it'll still be a while before everything is going. But there will be an RSS feed and so forth, so that should be fun. I've written most of the site in Ruby, although the on-site blog is unavoidably in WordPress PHP. I am not shutting down my LJ, but it'll be much less about this stuff. I'll be moving the writing and site management issues to the PendorWright site, and leave site this to talk about my family and friends. I wonder if there's a WordPress emacs module?

The wiki isn't up yet, and the pullquotes module is a little borken. I'm still getting it all together, but at least I have something I can see.

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[talisker.livejournal.com]

On a purely technical note, I'm fed up of the service of my hosting provider. They used to be excellent when they were still a mom&pop operation. They have since been bought and sold 4 times in the last 2 years and now, they suck. The SSH daemon has been down for the last week and the DNS server has been down for the last 2 weeks. All my trouble tickets go unanswered. This is not acceptable so I'm going to cancel my service. I was wondering who you were with and if you could recommend them? Cheers!