As part of the big re-arrange of the website hosting, and our domains, I can now confirm that three new domains, www.eandhbaxendale.ltd.uk , www.eandhbaxendale.co.uk and www.easi-joist-timberframe.biz are now live and are just another way of making our website even more accessible to the masses. Using the new features available to me via cpanel I am now able to ‘park’ multiple domains on one website, meaning whichever addresss you use you will be able to access our full website, with our previous web host, I could only forward www.baxtruss.co.uk to www.eandhbaxendale.com which had the dissadvantage of not being able to provide full page addresses such as www.baxtruss.co.uk/site-map.
Over the next few weeks I hope to setup a new page on the website specifcally about using easi-joist to create timber frame properties, using the Boars Den Barn project as an example, once that is in place I will then setup a redirect on the www.easi-joist-timberframe.biz domain to take visitors directly to it. I wasn’t actually planning on purchasing the .biz domain but .net magazine and domainmonster.com were offering a free domain to each reader, so who would turn that down, and while pondering over what domain to get the Boars Den Barn project popped into my head, so thats when I decided on www.easi-joist-timberframe.biz
Today I have begun the process of moving the website and domain from fasthosts to ezpz hosting, who I am sure will provide a better service.
UPDATE:The website and blog have now been moved over to ezpz hosting, thanks to Dan at ezpz who did that for us.
UPDATE: Our domain www.eandhbaxendale.comhas now completed its move over to ezpz hosting, thanks again to Dan at ezpz who guided me through a couple of niggles along the way.
Parts of the website were unavailable since yesterday evening, it seems I forgot to change on line of code on a few of the pages which resulted in them not displaying when called. I have been moving the website over into wordpress one page at a time, and well yesterday I decided it was the turn of the home page, which meant making a few changes in wordpress itself and to the location of a few of the websites key files. Anyway I have now tested all the pages and they are working again, at least I will know for next time.
After a few hours trying to get a php if… else statement working I was finally able to extend the dynamic highlighting effect for the navigation panel into the blog, so if you are on the 2006 archive page the 2006 archive will be highlighted in the navigational panel. I have also moved the header, search box, menu, and page footer for the main site into separate files, to make it easier to update them and to reduce the size of the individual pages. At the same time I have converted most of the site to php rather than html, this means if I need to include something from the blog in the main site I can without any problems, the only part of the site that isn’t php now are the error pages which will remain asp for now.
So after a bit of tweaking I have decided to bite the bullet and switch the new theme on, I have managed to sort out a few issues, some remain but at the moment I am not to concerned about them. I will however continue to tweak a few things every so often until I am completely happy with it. If anyone has any suggestions please feel free to use to comment form (if it works) or the general enquiry form to send them in.
So a couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I had started working on a new theme for the blog, a theme based upon the rest of eandhbaxendale.com, well with some help from Luke over at lunamedia.co.uk I can tell you that it is getting closer to being finished, everything seemed to be working when I took it for a test drive earlier today, however I have decided not to switch it on just yet.
There are a few issues to sort out first, which are mainly to do with the styles used. There is also an issue with left aligned images and the post meta data floating up into the image, if the image extends past the last line of text in the post, the temporary fix is to right align them but I would like to find a better solution if possible. Time permitting I would like to have it up and running by next week, I would also like to finish off the trussed rafter types and trussed rafter eaves details pages as well which I started to update a few weeks ago but got distracted by other jobs at work.
Today the I updated the roofing metalwork page, it includes a number of new metalwork items that are now available, and now includes a technical information sheets for each item as well.
Today I have added a local travel report map to the bottom of the contact us page which provides up to the minute traffic information.
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by Richard on 23rd July 2010 , filed under Website News Comments Off
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