New year - New website

I have tried to maintain websites before, the main problem I tend to come across is that I just cannot be bothered, then the other day I realised something that spurred me into action.

Recently I registered for a forum, which is something I had not done for quite a while and decided to add an image, I thought, hey I'll just add it to wannacorndog, so I did, I clicked to preview my shiny new post and... "Your hosting account does not support hotlinking".

Ok, so I can't really get indignant, I don't actually pay for hosting, so the restrictions imposed by the host is just something I have to accept, but I don't feel like I'm asking for much, if unlimited images can be uploaded and shared on imageshack, flickr, photobucket and so on, then surely my web host can do the same? If I actually expected to make any money from my website, then I wouldn't mind paying for this service, those banners on the left column of the page would just net me some bonus credit or a few pence off my phone-bill if anyone signed up after clicking them, so already with the bi-annual domain name renewal fee and the time put into maintaining it, it is very much a loss making enterprise.

So yesterday, I packed up my virtual things and registered for a new hosting service, so here we are on fresh new servers at holdonhosting.net - Isn't it nice?

Having moved, I felt like a little change was in order, the first page on wannacorndog.co.uk used to point to a collection of pages, that I had spent quite a while filling in and creating areas creating sections and promising content that never quite came to be, so a while ago, I changed it and pointed straight towards the corndog blog.

Now, I want a website again, but this time I want it to be less work, so I decided that what I would do is basically aggregate my blogs on it, I have started many blogs in my time, so I just needed the essential ones, so I have the corndog blog, which I add corndog pictures to on a very occasional basis, a blog that Isn't about corndogs which is basically another one I created to record the occasional thoughts I have that do not feature corndogs, I recently took my Travel Blog out of long term storage in order to write about holidays to other countries and finally this one, which I started years ago, wrote one post about making corndogs and then forgot about, so it seemed perfectly placed to be used instead as a kind of website news blog.

The majority of the work then was in figuring out how to display the content of an rss feed, I was so pleased when I put the articles into tables, managed to restrict the character count on the list on the homepage and my proudest bit, having it work out which blog it was on. This is obviously easy for some, but I'm relatively new to php.

Now its great, I can update most of it by simply filling in a blog, look for more soon, or not, doesn't matter, just subscribe to the rss feeds if you really want, I wouldn't, I'm not that interesting