I started this site at bengoodger.com six years ago to maintain personal information about me, as well as to serve as a dumping ground for files I wanted to share with others. By April 2002, I had decided to be more ambitious, and launched a weblog here. I was interested in the automated publishing medium, but I saw it more as an experiment than as a complete publishing solution, so much of the site was developed as static content. This turned out to be a problem, since I seldom updated it. Initially, I had grand plans to update the site monthly, but that never materialized. My last update to the front page was in August 2003, just after I got my last car.
At the same time, the archaic structure of the site, whose design and code I had largely lifted from a prototype I made in 1998 before I knew about CSS had become unmaintainable. I put together a new prototype, based on CSS. It took advantage of many features that IE could not understand - advanced CSS and translucent PNGs, but also some Mozilla proprietary features - XBL bindings etc to simplify the underlying HTML. The page rendered well in Firefox but was very slow. It rendered adequately in Safari, and forget about IE6. I gave up for three years.
For some reason, today I got a bee in my bonnet. I grabbed my 2003 prototype, attempted to work on it for a bit, gave up, and rebuilt it from scratch. You're looking at the result. It should display excellently in a Gecko or WebKit browser. There are some issues in IE7 that I might get around to looking at at some point. Again, forget about IE6.
So anyway more importantly, all of the public facing content of this site is moving into Movable Type. It's really a much easier way for me to update things. What this means in the short term is that some of the old content here may disappear or be moved. I'm going to do my best to make sure that any link that was public before remains at that location forever, but the navigation is going to change.
To access the old site and use its navigation structure, visit the front page archive.
I'm going to post up a storm in the next few minutes to fill out some of the basic sections, and then I think we'll be done.
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