New Domain

After losing contact with the guy who set up the puckdroppers .us domain name, it expired and could not be renewed. I now have registered a new domain name, (which if you're reading this you probably know about) puckdroppersplace.us. Once I get the hosting problem solved, it should all work. (Currently the host tries to look up URLs entered in the location bar at the original domain.)

Converting the website code over to the new domain was easy. There were only 7 changes made to about 40 source files, all of them were menu templates. Avoiding use of explicit paths and making use of templates has made the maintenance of the website much easier.

Hm... Looks like the next update I make will be to upgrade to the latest "blog" version for the updates list.

Navigation Changes

According to Usability Expert Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com), no site should have a link that links back to itself. So there should be no link to the main page if you're already on the main page.

This update reflects that idea, so rather than get a link to the page you're already on you see plain text.

Registration

If you wish to comment here, you must register. If you were registered over on the weblog/newspaper, you'll have to reregister. The databases are NOT the same, and I don't plan on making it that way. All 4 registered users will just have to reregister.

Major Overhaul

As regular visitors to the site have no doubt noticed, this site has recieved a major overhaul. Gone is the ice background, in favor of a dark green. The entire site has been rewritten to take advantage of PHP's require and include commands, which means changes to the entire site can be implemented quickly and reliablely tested.

I "stole" the updates scripts from the "blog" section (which is more of a newspaper section--but it's not linked to from the rest of the site.) A few SQL statements, and the code moved over nicely.