moving soon
New site is up at http://matthewlking.com/v3 Use the fancy pagepeelback at the top right to gett there quickly.
I am going to keep this old site up until I can move the old articles over to the new site.
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Welcome to MatthewLKing.com |
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Written by matt
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Sunday, 22 May 2005 |
Welcome to to my site. There are quite a few people on the internet named matt, so its hard to find me here I am sure. If you type Matthew King into Google you get a hundred different links of other dudes. Hopefully you are here for me, and not the fella who has a tank video game website on matthewking.com without the middle initial. :)
Its been a few months, but I am back up and online again with yet another web design. It must be like a crapshoot when you try to visit me here. Some days its nice and fancy and working well, some days its pure rubbish. Things should be better for some time now. I decided to move many of my websites to a hosting facility instead of doing all from a home server. This will give much better uptime, quality, and of course security. I have never been officially hacked to the point of losing my websites, but I don't want to tempt fate. This will be a good thing.
On the new website you will see some changes, new features, and many enhancements.
Mambo
You may notice a new layout for the website. In the past I used a CMS(content management system) called Geeklog. Geeklog was good for me at the time and served its purpose well. With my migration to a new host I found I had some problems, and was also shopping for another CMS for a site I was to build for a friend. I liked GL, but found it a bit time consuming to setup, and layouts and templates where harder to work with then I liked. I found Mambo and installed it. I found it really simple and easy to setup. I had a website up in a matter of minutes, and was changing things I didn't like very easily. A few days later I had a few more sites setup as well for future projects and for clients.
Easy is good, pretty and easy is very good. So here we are with a new layout. Let me know if you hate it.
This is starting to look like I am name dropping for sponsors or something but I am not I assure you. I'm still broke and have not become infinitely wealthy from plugging other websites.
GoDaddy
I ran my own Linux server from home for some time. It helped me learn some *nix and helped me learn some other useful skills. The big negative from running a home webserver is uptime. I have plenty of bandwidth here, and typically brownouts don't happen often, but if the power goes out due to a storm or if I have to move, or even do something experimental with the server, it puts my websites in jeopardy. This got old and I decided to use GoDaddy.com for more then domain name registering. They offer web hosting with MySql databases reasonably in my opinion. If only they made there site easier to navigate, they would get a bigger thumbs up from me.
I suppose thats enough plugging and education for now.
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