Soon to switch over

I’m close –oh so close– to switching over auntialias.com from the old, legacy, static pages to this new fangled one WordPress.

Those old page? They’re ancient. Decrepit. Outdated.

They’ve been around here a while. 2007 marks the 10-year anniversary of when I first registered auntialias.com as a domain. (One regret: Back then, I didn’t nab the domain name susan.com. I saw it. It was available. I hesitated. Now, I ask you this: What is easier to spell: susan or auntialias? Uh huh. Thought so.)

So. Where was I? Aaah yes. Ancient pages. Old moldy HTML. I created my first web site in 1995, hosted at AOL. It was the site to go with my first book. Then, a couple years later, in time for another book, I snagged the domain and made a site here. Thanks to the Wayback machine, it’s possible to see the old incarnations. I won’t link directly, as those were days of trust, when one could post an email address on a web site without a kerjillion spammers crawling sites to pick up email addresses to send spam to— and later (may they get their just reward) to spoof my email address as sender. (No, I don’t want to sell you stock recommendations, little blue pills, or anything else.) Back in the day, the world wide wait was all a-tizzy over a book called Making Killer Web Sites, by David Siegel. Earlier incarnations of this site were littered with dozens of little 1-pixel by 1-pixel transparent gifs to force the text into pleasing interlinear space. Content and presentation all together in a big hairy jumble. Before cascading style sheets put text here and presentation (appearance) over there.

I made another set of changes — pulled out all the pixel-gif cruft, cleaned things up a bit. Didn’t get much past that. The cobbler’s children have no shoes, you know.

So now, 10-years on — ta daa! facelift! With WordPress (blog / content management system software) on the back end to make this site as easy to contribute to as my long-running weblog has been for lo these seven years)

AuntiAlias.com is no a Bryce haven, tho I’ve kept all the old stuff, and even 10-year old web addresses will find their new destinations.