Dave Donaldson

Finally Moved to Graffiti (and OrcsWeb)

Thursday, October 02 2008

Today was my 1-year anniversary at Telligent, and in honor of this momentous occasion, I have *finally* moved my blog off Subtext and onto Graffiti (or GraffitiCMS proper I should say).

Me not moving my blog to one of our own products has been kind of a running joke on the team. Every so often someone would ask if I was ever going to move off Subtext, or I would say something about doing it over some weekend but then never would. And don't read anything into that. Not once did anyone complain or pressure me about it. It's just been pure laziness on my part.

But I finally made the time a couple nights ago and things have went pretty smoothly. Graffiti easily imported all my blog posts and comments from an exported BlogML file and I was quickly in business. From there it was a matter of picking a theme and configuring some settings. I'll go into more details in my next post.

I also took this time to move my blog from DiscountASP to OrcsWeb. DiscountASP has been great and I still have some other stuff hosted there, but as a Microsoft MVP (also renewed today) I get free hosting with OrcsWeb. I've heard really good things about them and thought I'd finally take advantage of the offer. As with Graffiti, moving to OrcsWeb has been smooth. My only real "complaint" is that their control panel isn't nearly as good as the control panel at DiscountASP. DiscountASP's control panel is still the best I've seen.

So anyway, take a look around the new site and let me know what you think. I still need to add an About page and a Contact page, but at least I finally added a picture of myself (that's just for you Keith Elder).