As you can see, I’ve put the new website online.
Some details are still missing, some image galleries and something else, but the most has been done and so I decided it was enough to deserve being made available to the public.
As I had announced, I’ve moved off from Xoops and migrated contents to WordPress, currently version 3.0.1. Most of the work has been related to migrating old articles and then finding and configuring plugins to achieve all the functions that I wanted to enable.
Main new features are:
- 2-columns layout on the right, in the inner column I’ve put those items related to the site itself (archives, login box, etc.), while in the outer column I’ve put those more “social” elements: links to Facebook, Twitter, Grooveshark, etc.
- Better Facebook integration: besides logging in with your facebook account, you can comment, click on “like” button, report articles and comments on facebook, invite fb friends etc.
- Social contents improved: there are new modules with my tweets from Twitter, my dents on Identi.ca, my books from Anobii, my music from Grooveshark and more stuff to add in the future.
- Better handling of multilanguage: whole site is available both in italian and in english, without strict dependence among the two, which means that the english articles don’t have to be a direct translation of the italian articles but they can be totally independent, related to other arguments, etc.
- Network community page: I’ve moved all links and functions related to users of LoneStar Network private services to a specific page named Network Community, which can be accessed from the menu bar under the header.
- Blog look-and-feel: for many years I’ve been using a “portal” layout for the site rather than a blog layout, with the presence of forums, which I’ve always considered being more democratic. But during the years, almost nobody has ever used the forums and the few interactions I’ve seen have come from comments to my articles. So I’ve decided to remove the forums and give more relevance to my posts.
Any comment, critique, compliment, insult is well accepted, as usual 🙂
