New personal website online
Feb. 3rd, 2020 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivdunstanI’ve just launched a new version of my personal website. It’s at
https://vivdunstan.co.uk/
(adding www. at the start also works)
It replaces an old website that was 1990s era HTML coding, looked dreadful, and was far too much dense text for people to read, all on mostly one gigantic page.
The new version is coded in WordPress using an existing theme and a set of linked static pages. I’d previously built sites in WordPress for my Coldingham and Melrose one-place studies, and had a number of WordPress blogs. So it seemed like a sensible option for me to use this time. Note this new site doesn’t have a blog built into it. Because I maintain a number of different blogs it instead has a “Blogs” page linking to them.
I have a personal domain name registered with my ISP, so used domain mapping to map the new WordPress.com site from there. It took a little while for DNS changes to percolate through, for the old site to effectively vanish from online, but things seem pretty stable now. Best of all I haven’t broken my email - which also goes through my domain name at my ISP - in the process!
The new website has a number of additions over the old, in particular a dedicated “Interactive Fiction” page to cover the text adventures I write. And longer term it should be more scalable and easy to develop.
So yup, pleased with that. It took remarkably little time, first developing it offline on the WordPress.org installation on my Synology NAS Diskstation. Then on Saturday night creating the version on WordPress.com and importing the site directly from the Synology one’s export file. Then last night changing the DNS setup.
Phew! Feel like another wine now ...
https://vivdunstan.co.uk/
(adding www. at the start also works)
It replaces an old website that was 1990s era HTML coding, looked dreadful, and was far too much dense text for people to read, all on mostly one gigantic page.
The new version is coded in WordPress using an existing theme and a set of linked static pages. I’d previously built sites in WordPress for my Coldingham and Melrose one-place studies, and had a number of WordPress blogs. So it seemed like a sensible option for me to use this time. Note this new site doesn’t have a blog built into it. Because I maintain a number of different blogs it instead has a “Blogs” page linking to them.
I have a personal domain name registered with my ISP, so used domain mapping to map the new WordPress.com site from there. It took a little while for DNS changes to percolate through, for the old site to effectively vanish from online, but things seem pretty stable now. Best of all I haven’t broken my email - which also goes through my domain name at my ISP - in the process!
The new website has a number of additions over the old, in particular a dedicated “Interactive Fiction” page to cover the text adventures I write. And longer term it should be more scalable and easy to develop.
So yup, pleased with that. It took remarkably little time, first developing it offline on the WordPress.org installation on my Synology NAS Diskstation. Then on Saturday night creating the version on WordPress.com and importing the site directly from the Synology one’s export file. Then last night changing the DNS setup.
Phew! Feel like another wine now ...