Latest site updates

Approximately at the time I did those Flickr compatibility tweaks I decided to mess up my so called “permanent links” after almost 2 years of, well, permanency. I was annoyed by the fact that my URLs ended in .php – actually they were useful this way before Movable Type implemented it’s dynamic page generation because I could place PHP scripts in the templates which would be executed when the page was loaded by a visitor. But as soon as Six Apart added the feature I opted for dynamic pages because otherwise each and every of the archive pages took up it’s own space on my host, and I never actually put any PHP content in them.
But even after switching to dynamic pages the structure remained and my links still looked like www.rusiczki.net / blog / archives / year / month / day / something.php. So, after I took a deep breath, I decided to mess things up. I needed that deep breath because by changing my permalink structure all the inbound links to my inside pages became invalid. Plus after el grande change, all my basenames (entry tile: Hello world it’s me = basename: hello_world_its_me) needed manual corrections and I haven’t had the time to do them all until yesterday. And since I was working on my blog I also corrected all the internal links (posts linking other posts) so now everything should be OK and in about a half a year the 404 errors will slowly but surely dim. After the almighty Google reindexes everything, that is.
Oh, I almost forgot: look out! Big Brother is watching you! A few days ago I installed Google Analytics.

2 Responses to “Latest site updates”

  1. vlad  on January 13th, 2006

    I read this post twice and didn’t understand much :) But it looks you are passionate on what you are doing. I didn’t succeed in trying Analytics because google stoped from registering us the mortals. I’ll wait….:(

  2. Janos  on January 13th, 2006

    Well, you shouldn’t have bothered. Actually I post these kind of entries because sometimes I read my blog backwards and I like to find these milestones to see how things “evolved” around here.
    Sorry about Analytics. I jumped on the bandwagon right during it’s first day, before the Google guys realized that the service’s huge success could ruin it’s performance. That’s how I got my paws on the account. For a while I couldn’t create any new profiles (you can analyze the trafic of several sites using the same account – these are the profiles), now they raised the limit to 5. I’m sure that in a short while they’ll open signups again. Just wait patiently. And subscribe to digg’s feed or create an RSS alert to be among the first ones who jump on the second bandwagon. :-)


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