Well, it’s official, jamesehly.com has been moved to devtrench.com and rebranded as DEVTRENCH (well at least in name). You’ll see a redesign of the header soon to incorporate the new DEVTRENCH logo along with some other graphical/layout changes that will suit the new site better. The site is now poised to grow into a web development hub for developers and designers that need great working solutions to their problems.

Switching the site turned out to be quite a process. I was working late yesterday switching the domain on my server from jamesehly.com to devtrench.com when cpanel reported an apache config error I wasn’t too worried though because I have a great host who has fast customer service and awesome tech support. They fixed me up and got devtrench.com live. Then it was just a matter of redirecting jamesehly.com and devtrench.net to devtrech.com (I did this from the registrar I use: goDaddy). I also had to change the WordPress options for site url and blog address via phpMyAdmin, and then dump the WordPress cache to get the site working again. So, like I said, it was a process. It probably could have gone smoother if I’d planned better, but that apache error really threw me for a loop. That’s how it goes when you work in the trenches though, you have to always be ready for that next problem to solve.

The only problem I’m really worried about (and I was worried about it before going into this), is that I’ll start to get adsense ads about trenching and trenchers I’ll combat that when and if it happens.

Some other upcoming things I’m planning on:

• I’ll be adding a top commentators plugin.
• The entire design of the site will change to better suit the new brand.
• I’ll be changing the feed to use feedburner, so I can track my RSS reads better.
• I’m sure I’ll be adding more plugins that I find, and sometime I’ll write a post about all the plugins I use.
• I’ll be adding different kinds of ads down the road.

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Category: Announcements | 423 views | Posted: June 8th 2007 08:36 am

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