March 18, 2009

Over the next couple of weeks I will be redoing the entire site. The end result will make for easier commenting, profiles, actions streams and the ability to sign up and write articles to submit should you wish to do so. There won’t be any noticeable changes until it’s complete as I am going to set up a completely new server for it. What may be noticeable is that I will probably only put a post up every couple of days until that time while I am busy setting up the new site. Once I finish I will migrate all of my posts over to the new site and just redirect the URL to it so that everything will be seamless on the front end.

We’ll still be using Movabletype, but the newest version along with user profiles and the Motion plugin. This will allow me to integrate the login process with Facebook as well as several other services. I am also considering setting up a forum as well. Any suggestions are welcome while I am working on it. Also, if you have any article suggestions you want to see written, please feel free to send ’em my way.

At one point in time I was running Amazon context links here but ditched them about a year and a half ago, mainly because most of the paid review companies don’t allow them. Since it’s been well over a year since I’ve done any paid posting here at Shadowscope I have re-implemented context links, using Kontera. For some reason they aren’t showing up on the main page, only in the entries themselves, which is fine right now. You’ll notice them by the double lines under the link, rather than the normal link with no line that I use. It all helps to pay for the hosting.

Now if I can just figured out why the heck it won’t work on the main index. Something to do with pagination I think, since that is no longer working either…