Welcome to the new and uh… well… I’m not going to lie. It’s not particularly improved, at least not at the moment. I decided that henceforth I would integrate my myriad of websites into one large WordPress site. Mainly because I want to try and get a consistent look and feel between sites, but also I’d like to have more crosslinking between the pages. So you come here via messydesks or my gallery, and you see other stuff I’m interested in. Call it a way to strike up conversation 
Well… maybe not conversation as of yet. I don’t have comments turned on, but will eventually. First, I want to get most of the content from the previous sites into WordPress. This is proving to be a challenge. Each website was built in a different editor (Netscape, Dreamweaver, Vim), at different times, so they’re all formatted differently. Then WordPress attempts to format the pages as it sees fit, which makes things a bit of a mess. I think I’ve got the hardest of the pages in, though. I also want to consolidate a little bit. For instance, I want to take my Grand Prix pictures and toss them into Gallery, as it’s silly to reinvent the wheel and have a standalone Pictures page for that now.
Messydesks is going to be a whole other beast. Most of that code should be copy and paste as it was written in a text editor. However, the whole website is php driven, and really, was one of my first forays into using php+mysql. However, I don’t think it’ll be particularly difficult to get that into the WordPress site, as it’s mostly text with just one image per page.
So stay tuned. Once I’ve gotten things to a point where I want the world to see it, I’ll replace my current site at http://www.thegovernment.net with this one.
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