From Dan on migration to Word press
Hi folks. I have finally initiated the process to migrate to a word press platform from the blogger platform, and will be switching to another comment system to be determined. Blogger is getting harder to use in our experience, and of course did not develop the variety of tools to augment how Angry Bear can offer a more systematic reference by topic access to archives and allow the opportunity for individual authors to discuss topics in their own more personal styles on author pages. All the attendant social media and subscription access will be modernized.
In the process the look and feel of Angry Bear will change to a more polished and better used ‘real estate’. I personally do not like the narrow middle column (two sidebars) coming in use currently. It is perhaps geared to mobile communications, but I feel detracts if you use a wider screen and data intense posts. An e-mail subscription with a mobile look might be necessary.
Please leave suggestions for useful functions first, and then perhaps the look of your favorite sites.
Thanks,
Dan
be careful, dan, ive seen a few site overhauls that didnt go well, others, IMO, looked worse after the fact than before…
as far as someone who’s pulled off the swtich to wordpress well, checkout my buddy Dusty’s site: Leftwing Nutjob
Thanks for the caution….I am using the people who guided Yves Smith’s migration, MEV.
http://mev.com/
as old as this site is, you probably get a lot of random traffic from feeds or blogrolls that have been around for years…i never “followed” AB through blogger until we had some trouble once i wanted to check on because i picked up all your posts at the economics roundtable anyway: http://www.rtable.net/index/rt/economics/recent
there are certainly similar sites that link to your AB posts, economics U follow & palgrave econolog come to mind…
while the regulars will follow wherever you go, i would think you dont want to lose that random traffic who’ll only click over when they see a headline in an area of their interest..