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New Site Look

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You may have noticed a few things changed around here.

In addition to a flurry of updates, I gave G5Center a face lift. The previous WordPress theme was fine, but it didn’t give me an option to make individual pages sidebar-free. GeneratePress, my current theme, does.

I chose GeneratePress because it is based on bootstrap and is fairly light. I want this website to serve owners and users of older equipment, so less giant images and simpler code is always helpful. So far, my personal tests on a Mac mini G4 and PowerMac G5 seem to bear it out that the website is usable. The only issue I have is that WordPress fusses with me when I login with TenFourFox that my browser is outdated. No surprise there.

So, let me know your feedback. Is there something I can do to make the site more accessible?

— Nathan

Good news

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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.