Comments on: Welcome to the new blog home! http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ilya http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1155 Ilya Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:13:30 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1155 Yeah, I might. For some reason, I kinda like how it looks on my screen, but I see your point. Yeah, I might. For some reason, I kinda like how it looks on my screen, but I see your point.

]]> By: Kisintin http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Kisintin Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:00:53 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1154 Change the font please! Using the Arial/Verdana variety in the headings and then switching over to Times new Roman is a bit painful on the eye. :) Besides for whatever reason web-design convention is never to use a Serif font on the web. :) Change the font please! Using the Arial/Verdana variety in the headings and then switching over to Times new Roman is a bit painful on the eye. :)

Besides for whatever reason web-design convention is never to use a Serif font on the web. :)

]]> By: Ilya http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1153 Ilya Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:23:41 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1153 Brian - I'll send you the script later today. Even though it is geared towards db-to-db conversion, you may get some structural idea out of it. Brian – I’ll send you the script later today. Even though it is geared towards db-to-db conversion, you may get some structural idea out of it.

]]> By: Ilya http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1152 Ilya Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:22:19 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1152 Thanks, Artyomchik! I simply missed the fact that I needed to modify those links as well, which I will do in short order. Your efforts were not for nothing :) Thanks, Artyomchik! I simply missed the fact that I needed to modify those links as well, which I will do in short order. Your efforts were not for nothing :)

]]> By: Brian Greenberg http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 Brian Greenberg Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:00:39 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1151 How funny! I'm right in the middle of updating my site to WordPress (I posted about it on Jason's blog the other day, but basically Blogger has screwed me over, so now it's time to move). Your site will, of course, immediately become a design guide for me, so thanks for that. As for that conversion script - can you send me an e-mail with more details (or post about it here?) I need to convert from Blogger, in which all the data is HTML based, not stored in database tables, so I'm dreading what might eventually be a re-keying (or Excel macros + cut/pasting) exercise. Any help would be much appreciated... Looking forward to releasing <i>my</i> new look any day now... How funny! I’m right in the middle of updating my site to WordPress (I posted about it on Jason’s blog the other day, but basically Blogger has screwed me over, so now it’s time to move).

Your site will, of course, immediately become a design guide for me, so thanks for that.

As for that conversion script – can you send me an e-mail with more details (or post about it here?) I need to convert from Blogger, in which all the data is HTML based, not stored in database tables, so I’m dreading what might eventually be a re-keying (or Excel macros + cut/pasting) exercise. Any help would be much appreciated…

Looking forward to releasing my new look any day now…

]]> By: Art http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 Art Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:41:28 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1150 It is a huge surprise indeed! Congratulations on successfully getting through every webmaster’s worst nightmare: switching platforms. I've noticed something that is not really a glitch in the sense that it may create inconvenience to your human readers (keyword being “human”); but rather something that may confuse the lights out of web spiders. Forgive my lecturing, but this is something that a website may loose quite a few visitors over. If you click on Calendar or Old Front Page in the upper right corner of your website, you will be naturally enough taken to.. the old main page. And while we, humans know it to be old, our dearest robotic friends: Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp and others still treat it as the main page. I don’t think they are artificially intelligent enough to comprehend and interpret your “Welcome to the new blog home!” post above. Besides, there may be quite a few external links pointing to it, telling them how important this "old" main page is. So a ‘bot still thinks of it as one of the main pages on the website. And while indexing it, it comes across quite a few b2evolution links that you made redirects. Now, depending on the laziness of the ‘bot, it may or may not follow the redirected links. In the best case scenario it will follow the redirects and discover the bold new world of Burlaki on WordPress. But. In the worst case scenario it may think that the site is dead, hijacked, not there anymore and a result drop you in its ratings. To conclude this long tirade, I recommend changing all links on all your old home and calendar pages to permanent links to their new respective urls. Whew, this must be the longest piece I’ve written since high school. Good luck with your site! It is a huge surprise indeed! Congratulations on successfully getting through every webmaster’s worst nightmare: switching platforms. I’ve noticed something that is not really a glitch in the sense that it may create inconvenience to your human readers (keyword being “human”); but rather something that may confuse the lights out of web spiders.
Forgive my lecturing, but this is something that a website may loose quite a few visitors over.
If you click on Calendar or Old Front Page in the upper right corner of your website, you will be naturally enough taken to.. the old main page. And while we, humans know it to be old, our dearest robotic friends: Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp and others still treat it as the main page. I don’t think they are artificially intelligent enough to comprehend and interpret your “Welcome to the new blog home!” post above. Besides, there may be quite a few external links pointing to it, telling them how important this “old” main page is.
So a ‘bot still thinks of it as one of the main pages on the website. And while indexing it, it comes across quite a few b2evolution links that you made redirects.
Now, depending on the laziness of the ‘bot, it may or may not follow the redirected links. In the best case scenario it will follow the redirects and discover the bold new world of Burlaki on WordPress. But. In the worst case scenario it may think that the site is dead, hijacked, not there anymore and a result drop you in its ratings.

To conclude this long tirade, I recommend changing all links on all your old home and calendar pages to permanent links to their new respective urls.

Whew, this must be the longest piece I’ve written since high school. Good luck with your site!

]]> By: Ilya http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 Ilya Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:25:08 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1149 Thanks, Jason! I did spend most of my life writing pretty complicated programs for others, so I might as well occasionally use the skills for my own benefit :) Thanks, Jason! I did spend most of my life writing pretty complicated programs for others, so I might as well occasionally use the skills for my own benefit :)

]]> By: jason http://burlaki.com/blog/2008/06/04/welcome-to-the-new-blog-home/comment-page-1/#comment-1148 jason Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:21:11 +0000 http://burlaki.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1148 Hey, Ilya, it looks good so far! I'll keep an eye out for broken links and such... Pretty impressive feat, by the way, writing that script. I don't think I'm any slouch in the ways of computers and web stuff, but that sort of thing is far beyond my abilities. Hey, Ilya, it looks good so far! I’ll keep an eye out for broken links and such…

Pretty impressive feat, by the way, writing that script. I don’t think I’m any slouch in the ways of computers and web stuff, but that sort of thing is far beyond my abilities.

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