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Did you miss me?

March 29th, 2005 by Kathy Purdy · 3 Comments 

I mean, did you miss my website? Access was denied (even to me, can you imagine?) for most of Saturday, all of Sunday, and most of Monday. It’s all straightened out now, at least until the end of April.

But I thought I’d take this opportunity to let you know that big changes are coming. Shortly after I got done with my “minor” web redesign (a big deal to me), my webhost let me know that I really, really, really needed to either upgrade Movable Type or change publishing platforms. (MT is what I use to publish this blog.) According to this pricing structure, I need to cough up 70 bucks for the privilege of using MT3. So I’m switching to WordPress.

There are a lot of exciting features in WordPress, but there are also several learning curves involved. Consequently you are not going to see much writing from me for a while, even though I have so many ideas banging around in my head I’d like to share. And even when I’m done, it’s going to look way different, because I don’t (or won’t, because gardening season is imminent) have time to make it look like it does now. Sigh. All that tweaking and hair-pulling down the drain.

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Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. • USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural; Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level: intermediate • Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY native plants, gardening with/for children

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Steph // Mar 29, 2005 at 11:54 am

    I’ve done MT and now have WP. WP has far less headaches, once you’ve acclimated you will love it.

  • 2 Keith // Mar 29, 2005 at 9:44 pm

    Steph is right; you will LOVE Wordpress. You will especially love never having to rebuild your site again.

  • 3 bill // Mar 30, 2005 at 9:00 am

    I will follow your progress.

    I need to do this too, as I am on an older MT version. I installed WordPress but then I balked at having to do all the work to make it look the way I wanted. So many things to do that are more fun.

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