Finally! Picayune has made the move to a more efficient solution for posting 1200, WordPress. It’s rather obvious since it’s advertised at the bottom and many of you may recognize its rather “blah” default Theme.
For a couple years I’ve been told the old site was pokey which probably discouraged others from checking it out and/or commenting. However, I got by because what I had was affordable plus manageable through the Mac Mini (G4 woo hoo!) in my house. Then the Java element driving it began to go through fits and starts of spinning out of control resulting in outages until I killed the process.
The solution was to either get a faster connection (unrealistic) or replace the software (inconvenient). The latter took some time from my more-skilled friends because WordPress is rather sophisticated, compared to Blojsom. I think I got Adam to solve the SQL problem preventing this sooner by (indirectly) challenging his code prowess. Personally, I wish I could’ve figured it out but I know my limits so I sought assistance.
Now will come the tedious process modifying this rather vanilla Theme or installing a more appropriate one, preferably something closer to what Picayune used to have. Then there’s the other 1199+ posts I want to bring over (you can see I did preemptively converted July 2005, some of August 2005 and the last 10), Comments included. Eventually, I will flip the switch to turn off the old one completely.
For the interim, here’s the link to what I’ll dub The Old Picayune, classic is overused. (It will remain in the sidebar too under the section linking to my friends’ sites.)
I had been testing this earlier with a couple friends, mainly to see how quickly it loaded. The ultimate test was during my lunch hour, how long it took to appear on my iPhone through the EDGE network. I was impressed enough to make the change today despite the Theme being lame. Again, I will be adjusting this to something more unique.
Enjoy the revised Picayune! Please Comment more and set up an RSS feed. I’m open to design suggestions or a Theme you think works.