Wargaming.info News
26 April 2011
As previously posted (A Not So Small Migration) I have migrated Wargaming.info to WordPress, and as such have needed to reconfigure or redesign some facets – such as Image Galleries – so there are currently parts of the site missing data. Right now I have finally started to upload the image galleries for those posts that had large numbers of photos, having now got all the necessary components working to display the images properly. As of tonight I have completed everything back as far as late September 2010, older posts which had large galleries will still be missing their images (there’s about 16 of them in total), but I will gradually get 1 or 2 of these a day done I hope over the next 2 weeks or so to have the site back to 100%.
I have also started retagging many of the posts, again working in reverse chronological order, so the tag cloud will gradually become more complete and accurate over the next couple of weeks or so, but in the meantime only about 22% are done (the most recent ones).
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8 April 2011
Over the last few days I have been migrating Wargaming.info from Joomla to WordPress – for a variety of reasons – but needless to say it has required a reasonable amount of effort (and has been the third such major migration I have done in about 4 years in my quest to find the ideal platform). The site is now back up and running in its new environment, however it does unfortunately mean any external links to specific pages on the site will mostly be broken (while in Joomla I could load multiple aliases for pages, the by maintaining external links to old page addresses, I have yet to figure out how easily that can be done in WordPress). Also it may or not break RSS subscriptions – so you may need to reselect RSS notifications if you had these previously. So first of all my apologies to anyone this affects!
I have not as yet completed all work, but I wanted to get the new design up and running as soon as possible, so:
23 April 2010
Early Mycenaean (or Minoan) Spearmen.
Welcome to the completely revamped Wargaming.info – the new format is designed to hopefully make things a bit easier to find and to enable me to upload more content more easily and keep the site more up to date. By using a CMS (Content Management System) much of the process is now streamlined and virtually the entire site is CSS based (as well as being W3C & XHTML compliant). You will also find Feeds (RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0) on the main Home Page (which will show the half-dozen most recent items on the whole site), the Blog (which will show all blog entries), and each major section (e.g. Napoleonic’s, Colonials, World War II, showing the items under that category) – so if you are just interested in a specific era (e.g. Colonials) you can just subscribe to the Feed service for that section! I have not put a specific feed icon on any of the pages as your web-browser should display the icon by default for you to click on…
Anyway, I hope you find something of interest and I look forward to significantly increasing the quantity and frequency of updates from now…
14 December 2008
Perry Miniatures' Sudanese Infantry from my collection
Today is the big day as I load the redesigned site into the live environment. Regrettably it is not fully 100% complete as some sections do not have all their material yet – but websites are always evolving creatures so as time permits I’ll get to those more obscure areas. If you are browsing the new site and find any odd links that don’t work or areas that don’t appear to display correctly, please let me know – the site has been designed with Opera and I have also tested it with Firefox & good ol’ sluggish I.E. – so it should display consistently & correctly in those browsers and any other W3C compliant ones. As always I appreciate any feedback, good or bad… I hope people enjoy and find something of interest?
31 October 2008
Frontier Miniatures 24th Foot from the Zulu War
Frontier Miniatures 24th Foot from the Zulu WarWay back in February 2008 I started on an ambitious plan to revamp the entire site expecting it to take just 2-3 months. Now, in December 2008, I have just finished spending many months doing the full rewrite of the site using CSS to make it fully W3C compliant, and also to generally improve the design somewhat while keeping the original feel. Although I have not completed all parts of it I felt a need to publish the site to get it live on the web, and to show people it had not just gone dead for 10 months!
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