Sore Eyes

I'd like to be the first to congratulate you on your new domain. I'm exceptionally pleased that you have permalinks now. :) Congrats!

Ooh, look, my first ever comment! Cool!

I'm glad that I've made at least one regular reader happy. :-)

Congratulations! It looks great. Will you be migrating all your old posts over, or are you starting with a totally clean slate?

Looks fantastic! Congratulations!

Thanks for all the kind words. If I'd known how many nice things people would say about my site I'd have done this months ago! ;-)

I'm not planning on moving the old posts over any time soon. I quite like having a clean, table-free layout and I'm not sure that I can face the chore of restyling all those pages of table-based postings. Besides, right now I think I need to give myself a fortnight to figure out whether I want to make major changes to my Movable Type template or add further classes to my CSS to refine the layout a bit.

Once I've settled on the CSS layout I'm going to use, in principle I should be able to do a bit of fancy search-and-replace work using regular expressions to strip out much of the table-related markup and render my archives fit for use with my stylesheet. All I can say for now is "watch this space" on the archives front.

John - I'm so happy you've got permalinks and comments! Site looks good too. Must update your link on my site!

Thanks Kristen.

Congratulations on your new home. Look forward to continue many happy hours of soothing my eyes.

It's good to see another of my regulars/favourite reads on board.

Some might say that my colour scheme isn't very soothing, but that's another story...

permalinks? yay! :)

John, you've finally done it! I thought you were really against comments! Now I don't have to resort to thinking up things to post to the list about just to comment on something here :) And believe me I WILL comment!

Simon

Darren: you know, if I'd realised that a little thing like permalinks would make so many of my regulars so happy I'd have done something about it much sooner. :-)

Simon: It wasn't exactly that I was against comments, more that I wasn't convinced that they'd get much use. I'm happy to have been proved wrong.

Comment away: it's what they're there for.

Aha, good stuff. I miss the yellow-and-white stripiness, but you remain the best site of filtering and intelligent observation around; keep it up.

I wanted to keep the yellow and white stripes, but I couldn't figure out a way to make Movable Type apply a different background colour to consecutive posts.

I'm glad to hear that you think the content is still up to scratch, even if the colour scheme is sub-optimal.
;-)

At your new URL, will you be pinging weblogs.com? It's so convenient for readers to know when you update.

And Movable Type makes it oh so easy to do, so I hear.

Actually, pinging weblogs.com has been turned on ever since this new site went live, and when I write a new post MT displays a message saying it's pinging weblogs.com.

I don't use the weblogs.com recently updated list myself, so I hadn't paid much attention to whether it's working. If it's not then I'll certainly look into it.

Just a quick update on the weblogs.com front: I've just made a new post and checked weblogs.com and Sore Eyes is listed. I've also set up MT to ping blo.gs, and that's working too.

A few days late in catching up with the news, but Happy New Home anyway, welcome to the fabulous world of Movable Type, and yes, I too will be making use of those permalinks.

Thanks, Jon.

Although I've been playing about with MT here for some time before "officially" opening the site, it's only as I've used it for real over the last few days that I've come to appreciate just how well thought out MT really is. It's certainly well worth the US$20 donation.

Hey John

Nice smooth new format. Congratulations!

Does the migration over to soreeyes indicate that you've joined the ranks of the clean shaven?

Thanks Alistair.

And no, I haven't gone over to the clean-shaven brigade. I'm still as hirsute as ever, so I feel that I have every right to continue to use thebeard.org as my personal domain. :-)