Good news

We are back.

After looking at numerous options, I decided to switch to WordPress for g5center. I’m not a huge fan of WordPress, but it’s workable for now.

The good:

  • WordPress is much faster on PHP 7.3
  • Using a bootstrap theme is relatively harmless
  • The new WordPress editing system (blocks) is kind of helpful
  • Security is maintained decently

The bad:

  • WordPress themes almost universally stink
  • The site isn’t as clean as I would like
  • I don’t like the shortened articles on the main blogpage
  • Categories and tags are probably overkill
  • We lost all those wonderful old comments

For now, most of the content has been transferred over. I did remove a few entries on the Hardware, System, Office, etc pages, because they didn’t have links or just felt extraneous at this point. I may add those back. I do have a backup of the old site, so I will continue to move any information over. All of the articles have been moved over, and everything is searchable. So, go wild.

Stay tuned. SimpleMarkPPC news incoming.

Bad News

Hi, loyal readers.

When I started this website, I wanted it to gather some helpful links and wisdom from my own experiences with the Power Mac G5, and I think it has succeeded in that mission. My aim too was that the site would be simple and load quickly on our PowerPC machines, while still looking modern and good. Again, mission accomplished.

Unfortunately, my server is depreciating the version of PHP that the simple blog interface I am using relies upon. It’s probably not wise to try to fix it. Instead, I am going to look to move the site to something different which has its own quirks and possibilities. In the meanwhile, hold your breath. The site may go down and up. It may wheeze along. There is a chance that the move is not completed by October 1, and if so, this site may throw up errors. Be patient. I’ll do what I can.

— Nathan