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Wecome Back Family Readers

jason| February 12, 2008 6:29 am

Hello everyone. I had email updates shut down while the blog was undergoing some changes so that you wouldn’t be bothered by experiments. Here is a quick run down of how the new site works:

I have both a public and a private section on the web site now, similar to the way it was set up before. The private area is to protect information on the kids and the public area is mostly babble you may or (more likely) may not be interested in. I’ve eliminated the group password that used to grant access to the private areas in favor of letting you create your own accounts. I was getting asked frequently to clarify the password. This way you’ll be able to reset your own password if need be.

In the sidebar on the right and also at the top of this page you will see a link to subscribe. You have the option to subscribe either with a feed reader (don’t worry about it if you don’t know what that is) or by email. You can also choose to get all updates or just family related updates. As there are now several different ways you can receive updates, this update will be the last one sent out to the old email list. If you just want a quick way to resubscribe by email to the family updates, you can do that by clicking here.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or just want to yell at me for making it ridiculously impossible to access pictures of the kids and obsessively changing things all the time please email me. Linked below are a few family updates you may have missed during the sabbatical.

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More site progress

jason| February 5, 2008 6:04 pm

I finished integrating Gallery, so now once you create an account you’ll be able to view the photos by clicking the link at the top of this page.

I also tagged all the historic posts so that you can find posts by clicking tags on the right. Once you log in the randomish photos on the right will start to show something other than my mug and landscapes.

It’s coming along. . .

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That was fast

jason| 9:36 am

Thanks to the power of Google API and my content manager’s great import functionality, I now have all my old blogger posts imported here. You’ll be able to view them once you log in and I approve you to view the family posts.

I also added OpenID for your logon pleasure. Blogger users should be able to log on using this method: just type your blog address in for the OpenID url. If you don’t already have OpenID enabled, you will land on a page letting you know how to get it done.

Shoot me some feedback and let me know your thoughts/ideas on the redesign.

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A note on the changes

jason| February 4, 2008 6:06 pm

If you haven’t noticed, I’m working on a new look for the blog. A couple of notes on what to expect in the future:

More posts! (don’t I always promise that?)
This will either become the landing of www.masker.net or get the subdomain blog.masker.net, not sure yet
One day I might import all the old blogger posts (likely minus the pictures which are already in the gallery
I’m going to make the family stuff available based on login instead of the group password thing that nobody remembers. Basically you’ll create a sign-on for the blog, I’ll authorize you to view family posts and maybe I won’t get so many “what was that password again?” emails. . .
I’m also looking at integrating the gallery into this, maybe getting rid of the rest of my ugly site
Looking into migrating my current email subscribers. Not sure if this will happen, if it does you’ll be subscribed to the family posts and will need to subscribe to the rest of the babel if you want it
OpenID support - this is important, if you aren’t a geek, don’t care or don’t know what this is, don’t worry about it

I guess that’s it for now. Registration link is on the right.

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