Well, I’m sure just from the page loading you’ve realized that the site has changed.  I’ve abandoned phpNuke in favor or Wordpress.  Phpnuke was getting too commerical.  I wanted to get a new look so I started looking at replacement themes.  People wanted me to pay for these?  Are they crazy?  I had to sift through junk spam/ad sites just to get to other sites that offered to sell themese to me.  A few sites had free ones but they were few and far between.

So I switched to wordpress…

How does that help my problem? Simple Answer: open source.  Wordpress is 100% open source and licensed using the GPL.  People are writing all kinds of stuff for it all the time!  The photo gallery is semi-integrated with this new site.  The random photos on the sidebar to the right are from it.  You can also jump straight to any album in the gallery directly using the album tree on the sidebar as well.

Another thing different about this site is that it is no longer hosted at good’ol Compunizzle.  My server I had up there started having problems and I felt funny still having it there anyway since I don’t work there anymore.  I signed up for commercial hosting with dreamhost.com  They give me a ton of storage and wide open access to everything I would need.  It’s also reassuring that I have backups of my webiste now.

I’m still a little rough around the edges with the ins and outs of wordpress but I’m getting there.  I hope to have the Christmas List Exhange app re-written inside wordpress here shortly.  Well, I’m done for now.  Enjoy the photo gallery, a ton of new pics will probably be in there before the week is up.