Updating the website
So The Legal Genealogist is edging into the 21st century… maybe … with a little bit of an update, and a little bit of a spruce up, and a lot of construction dust and debris and woes.
First there was the problem of trying to see what the changes would look like before they were permanent. On a host that was roughly the speed of a glacier.
Then there was the glitch with the export of existing content. Using a platform that wasn’t designed to do that very well. And didn’t.
Then there was the question of importing the content. Which should have worked flawlessly. And didn’t.
And then…
And then…
We all love technology, right? Until it bites us right when and where we least expect it to.
In any case, the outer shell and innards of the new site are now up and working. At least I think they’re working. Time will tell.
There’s still some work to be done. The Chrome browser isn’t playing nicely with the theme the way the other browsers are, and there are sure to be some other glitches I haven’t spotted yet. Still, it’s better and more functional than it was.
In the meantime:
(a) if you subscribe by email and you’re here because you’re not getting this and later posts by email, subscribe again please, using the email subscription button to the right on the website.
(b) If you’re poking arouind the website and something doesn’t work, let me know in a comment to this post or by email (you can use the Ask TLG link at the top of every page).
(c) If you’re reading something or looking at something and it doesn’t look right or you think it could be better, let me know that too, the same way.
And thanks for your patience while the rest of the reconstruction gets done, mostly behind the scenes.
But… hey! Watch out for that drop cloth!
And don’t trip on that ladder!
And pardon the mess, please.
I was subscribed via e-mail but now realize I didn’t see this post, or the previous one Under Construction, in my e-mail. So I signed up again to follow in e-mail and was told I’m already subscribed. Not sure that feature is working properly?
I subscribe using RSS and the blog title changes to “Comments on: Blog” and has not included this post yet.
I too am subscribed using RSS and instead of a list of read and unread recent posts, I see “Live Bookmark feed failed to load.” Re-subscribed (the blog title was given as “Comments on: Blog”) but it did not help. Can access posts from the homepage, but it is more cumbersome at this time.
I’m still receiving notice of your new posts by email, but instead of coming from “The Legal Genealogist” they’re now coming from “Google, Inc.” as are the notices from several other Google based bloggers. My spam filter is very unhappy about this and has taken to diverting some (but not all) of the notices into the spam folder in a very unpredictable fashion. My email search engine has been affected, too, and can no longer tell one Google based blog from another. I’m pretty sure this was,not caused by your efforts to upgrade your site, but by some new “improvement” that has been made by Google. Why do these tech companies keep trying to fix what ain’t broke?
This may have more to do with your email system rather than mine. I send a copy of the posts to myself and sender in my email system shows as The Legal Genealogist, albeit with the feedproxy@google address. The subject title begins with The Legal Genealogist. I’m not familiar with Yahoo, but you might try seeing if it will let you filter on subject title to ensure that everything arrives in your email properly.