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Splitting my site

I just split my site into blog.greggman.com and games.greggman.com. I kind of see it as, games, is my game development oriented site. A place for me to discuss and bring up game and career related things. The blog site is more personal. Of course feel free to read either, both or neither but it seemed to me that I needed to separate the two. I’d prefer if I’m discussing game development that and someone wants to look me up they can concentrate on game dev related stuff and skip the “looking for a girlfriend” stuff. I hope it works out.

I’m sure there will be some rough edges and bugs. All the old URLs should still work. One big change though, I switched comments to being listed oldest to newest (the opposite of what they used to be). I believe at the time I started comments on this system which way was more common had not really be decided but now as pretty much all comment systems go oldest to newest I’ve been told more than once it’s confusing the opposite way so I switched them to be like everyone else.

Feeds for the 2 sites are separate. Stuff I post on one should not enter the RSS feed of the other so if you want the game related stuff in Bloglines or some other RSS reader you’ll need to add that feed.

  • uk_designer_matt
    update notes

    Hi Gregg,

    Is there any way you could add an update note to each of the links on the new front page? Something as simple as the date of the last entry would help. It just means I can be super lazy and just view the front page to see if you have done a new entry rather than having to visit both links :-)

  • quaker
    design issue

    The .blog and .gamedev inside the G are too damn small as targets. I don’t see the point of having a huge front page with teenyweeny links. How about putting two Gs side by side, one for gamedev and the other for blog and making each of the whole Gs the target ?  

  • http://blog.greggman.com greggman

    Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll look into it.

    In the meantime I suggest you give bloglines.com a try.  Sign up, come back here and click the following two links to add them to your bloglines.com subscriptions.  Then you can go there and see if my site (and any others you usually visit) have been updated.

    link to subscribe to blog.greggman.com
    link to subscribe to games.greggman.com