BLOGS VS. WEB SITES

I’ve decided (I think) that I want to convert all my Web sites to blogs and retire the Web sites — or maybe just use their addresses to forward people to my blogs. I wonder how much work that might be? I guess the issue is that as long as my Web sites are Web sites, I’ll have to keep renewing the domain names and Web hosts. That means when I die they will eventually cease to exist. If I manage to get all the contents posted to my blogs, the contents will remain available as long at the blogosphere exists, which is forever enough for me. So now I’ve got to think through what I want to do and in what order. Plus I’ll have to work with my Web sweetheart to get my graphics transferred, and I’ll have to figure out how to link my book reviews to Amazon from my Naturalist’s Bookstore blog. Lots of work…. BUT the advantage is the end products would be permanent, infinitely tweakable by me, and all interconnected any way I want them to be.

BLUE THEMES AND THEIR SEARCH TOOLS

I got tired of the black and white of the JOURNALIST theme, so I tried some of the blue ones. SAPPHIRE is handsome, but it offers only a five-line search, and I want a full-text search for this blog. CONTEMPT offers a full-text search, but it also has that confusing pop-up that says “If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.” What links? So Next I tried K-2, which offers the full text search. Maybe I need to make a list of which themes offer full searches so I’ll be able to cut to the chase. I’m just remembering that good old KUBRICK has the most minimal search of them all. It offers just the date — no text at all — which actually makes it perfect for my Birdathon blog that serves as a searchable archive of all the species I’ve reported seeing on my Birdathon blog. Just to make my review of the blue themes complete, I revisited POOL and discovered that it has a full-text search, so maybe I’ll experiment with it for a while.