I’m still here!

Hello!  Is there anyone there?  You’re probably asking the same thing of me!  Its been an interesting few weeks.  Where do I begin?

Ok.  I was ill for about a week after having a “questionable” satay in a South East Asian country.  I swear I had no idea the tiles on my bathroom floor were that clean.  During my recovery I decided to take a few days off from writing and photographing to “recharge” my batteries.  Sometimes, blogging can really take up a lot of time as a lot of people know.  The moment it becomes a “chore” I just have to back off.  During my recouperation and rest, I thought long and hard about the blog platform I was using.  I wasn’t really enjoying using it.  It took forever to get my posts online and somehow I felt I was being “left behind”.  (The software actually creates great websites but really lacks in the blogging arena).  So I looked at WordPress as a system to explore my food blogging.  Needless to say I was hooked.  I tested it locally and played around with a few ideas and decided I was to organise the blog as a content management system.

That was the easy part.  The next part required me to import all my posts into WordPress.  That worked like a breeze too.  However, my urls had changed which then meant I had to redirect EVERY single post, permalink and picture!  That part wasn’t easy.  I had to physically re upload all my pictures and retype all the permalinks so people didn’t get lost and google had to know I was still here.  That took me five whole days and nights!  It is something I never want to wish on anyone.

The old content is still here its just organised differently.  Very much like an online magazine/newspaper site.  The only thing I couldn’t import were the comments. All 998 of them.  They were mangaed by a third party and there was no  way to bring them in!

I also want to apologise  to everyone that I frequent on a regular basis.  Sorry I couldn’t come by.  This project consumed the last 3 weeks of my life!  I’m also sorry that I couldn’t enter the few events in the blogosphere that I really love, namely the Royal Foodie Joust and Elly’s Eat to the Beat.

I will be tweaking the site in the next few days so there might be a bit of “unusual” behaviour but I think everything is under control.  I hope you like the new layout and the colours.  I’m still not 100% sure about the green.  I do however want to hear your feedback as its always welcome.  I’m also “planning” on doing “foodcasts” a.k.a as podcasts.  I think its a great way to get “personal” with you all and I plan on announcing my ideas about these in the next few weeks.

Cheers and happy eating!

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