A few days ago I finally got my shawnwright.com domain moved over to my new webhost, something I alluded to a couple months ago, and I've been cleaning up various things since. A couple things broke in the move, but I think I have them fixed now. As I'm finally on the new host, I can start catching up on my back-logged site to-do list, such as the family album, which still lacks vacation pics, softball pics, fencing pics, new school pics, etc.
The biggest piece of broken-ness is the fact that I was using SSI (server side includes) on many pages, and I hadn't counted on the fact that I previously had my ISP configure their server to parse all .htm and .html files on my home directory for SSI. As I'm now on a big web host, there's no hope of that customization happening, so I had to rename a bunch of files to .shtml for those includes to work. Eventually, as I centralize my menus and what not, all files will be renamed to .shtml (or more likely .php). The biggest impact is the links page. I know I had several friends and family members bookmarking my links page (links.htm), which is now links.shtml. However, I did put a redirector in place so if you still have the old page bookmarked (though you really should update it) it will still get you there.
I've also switched all shawnwright.us references (i.e. slogs.shawnwright.us) back to shawnwright.com, but the .us aliases will remain in place indefinitely.
Something I still haven't fixed is page counters, which were only on a couple of pages, but the new host has some nice web stats packages for free, so I'm not sure the counters matter much any more. Besides, the home page on the old host only had about 11,000 hits in the eight years it was on my ISPs server, so it's not like I was racking up the visits.
The stupidest thing I've done so far in this domain move was to implement a catch-all email box (*@shawnwright.com). As it was, with just my one address (me at shawnwright dot com) I was getting like fifty to seventy-five spam messages a day. I think I've gotten several hundred (maybe even a thousand) alone in just the 12 hours since I turned on that mailbox. Obviously, while my new host does filter viruses for me, they DON'T filter spam (bastards... they probably make too much money off it themselves being a web host). So, to stop the massive influx of spam in my mailbox, I'm about to turn that feature way off. If you don't know my real address (you darn address-making-up spam-bots), you can't spam me.
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