After countless messages from
Steve Trefethen and my new co-worker
Geoff Lane harassing me about updating my web site, I finally started to do it last night. Here's what I did:
- I've been running Google Analytics on my web site for a while now. I was finally able to add it to the blog portion of my web site. I edited PageTemplate.ascx in the appropriate skins folder of .Text to add the scripting code.
- I added Google AdSense throughout the site. I don't imagine I'll retire off the income, but hopefully it can help defer hosting costs.
- Tons of small improvements and bug fixes to get a more common look and feel, including moving to ASP pages instead of static HTML pages. I imagine I'll template the main look and feel soon.
- I updated content throughout the site to reflect things that I've been doing the past couple of years.
I came across a bunch of other things that I'll be doing to the main web site over the next couple of weeks, too (e.g. upgrade to support at least 800x600; upgrade to dasBlog so I can finally get off of .Text 0.95 and get features like searching, etc. The big problem is finding a way to convert my existing blog without losing comments or URLs; upgrade the look and feel.). I guess web sites can have code decay the same way that real code can. 