So I am attempting to take this web page in a slightly new direction. I am now experimenting with hosting on WordPress.com in an effort to make updating and maintaing my webpage easier.
For the past 5 years I have been using RapidWeaver to create my website. For the most part, this software has worked well for me. But over the course of time, as my needs and situation have changed, I am finding this software to be less useful for me. Following are some of the issues that have driven me to try something new.
RapidWeaver uses absolute paths instead of relative paths. What this means is that when the application looks for a file it starts at the top level of the system starting with the hard drive name. If the software used a relative path it would begin searching for files in it’s own file folder and then go into sub-folders from there. This has created multiple issues for me over the years. The first of which was when I wanted to start updating my site while at work or traveling. In order to do this I had to move my source files to my work computer. When I did this I ended up having to rebuild all of the pages with media on them as the software couldn’t find any of the resources since it was on a different system with a different name. That was a pain, especially because I had to select each item individually instead of the software realizing that all of the missing assets where in the same folder.
This became an issue again recently when my work computer was recently migrated to a new server, and the user system folder relocated on the hard drive. Again, RapidWeaver lost the ability to connect to all of the assets. File permissions have also been messed up in this recent change to my work computer, and I can no longer save the files I’m working on, instead having to choose Save As… every time I want to save what I am working on. This is especially annoying as I tend to to save my work frequently while working on it as opposed to just once when I’ve finished.
So for these reasons my current way of maintaining a website is in need of a change. I do not expect to be able to replicate my old site exactly, nor do I want to. I am hoping I can get my old site more or less migrated to this new system relatively quickly (a month, maybe) and that it will enable me to make more frequent updates. The old website still exists, and I will keep a link to it in the sidebar for the foreseeable future.
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So I am attempting to take this web page in a slightly new direction. I am now experimenting with hosting on WordPress.com in an effort to make updating and maintaing my webpage easier.
For the past 5 years I have been using RapidWeaver to create my website. For the most part, this software has worked well for me. But over the course of time, as my needs and situation have changed, I am finding this software to be less useful for me. Following are some of the issues that have driven me to try something new.
RapidWeaver uses absolute paths instead of relative paths. What this means is that when the application looks for a file it starts at the top level of the system starting with the hard drive name. If the software used a relative path it would begin searching for files in it’s own file folder and then go into sub-folders from there. This has created multiple issues for me over the years. The first of which was when I wanted to start updating my site while at work or traveling. In order to do this I had to move my source files to my work computer. When I did this I ended up having to rebuild all of the pages with media on them as the software couldn’t find any of the resources since it was on a different system with a different name. That was a pain, especially because I had to select each item individually instead of the software realizing that all of the missing assets where in the same folder.
This became an issue again recently when my work computer was recently migrated to a new server, and the user system folder relocated on the hard drive. Again, RapidWeaver lost the ability to connect to all of the assets. File permissions have also been messed up in this recent change to my work computer, and I can no longer save the files I’m working on, instead having to choose Save As… every time I want to save what I am working on. This is especially annoying as I tend to to save my work frequently while working on it as opposed to just once when I’ve finished.
So for these reasons my current way of maintaining a website is in need of a change. I do not expect to be able to replicate my old site exactly, nor do I want to. I am hoping I can get my old site more or less migrated to this new system relatively quickly (a month, maybe) and that it will enable me to make more frequent updates. The old website still exists, and I will keep a link to it in the sidebar for the foreseeable future.
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