Working On It

September 11th, 2016 by

Recently if you notice my site seems to be lacking certain things. Having become frustrated with the slow load times of the site, I worked with GoDaddy and migrated my site to a WordPress focused server.

GoDaddy split their services for basic web hosting into two areas, your standard web hosting and WordPress focused hosting. There are various technical reasons for doing this, and I could write extensively on it, but I will not. Let’s just say, because my site is WordPress based, migrating it to a WordPress focused hosting was the best move. It did not cost me anything more to do so, and within 24 hours of working with GoDaddy the site is up and running. Not one hundred percent as you can see, but I am working on that.

If you notice, the site loads instantaneously in most browsers compared to the minute it would take when the site resided on a standard web hosting server. It also functions extremely well, and the administrative access to it is fast.

Since the server has changed, and there are some other minor technical challenges, I will be working on getting my theme to look the way it did when I started the web comic, it is a custom built site so it requires more maintenance, this is why so many web comic artists decide to do WYSIWYG set ups, less headache. My background is in design, including web design, and I am always one to not enjoy plug and play type things, I like to customize and tinker, so I build my own themes. So there is tinkering involved, once that is done, and everything works smoothly, it is a joy to see, and say you built it.

I am also working on redoing my portfolio website, and making it function well for various devices. The responsive design concept is something I understand, and I am working on it. As fall is coming, and soon winter, my obligations and demands on my time will be less, so I can then work more on my hobby.

Such is the pains of being a working person with household obligations, you cannot focus too much on something like a hobby. Still working on the character bios and idea for a YouTube channel. The channel will probably just be some videos related to another hobby that is relaxing, video gaming.

Thanks for stopping by.