Sorry for the downtime for those who noted it. I’ve made plenty of changes on the site, but the major changes happened in the backend, this is, the software used to run this site. I took care to make everything look as usual, so probably you won’t note any change. For me this means better administration tools, ease to update, more time to focus on content instead of managing files.

Usually those programs are updated from time to time on their respective project sites, but I really don’t like to jump in every tiny update they make unless it’s really important or remarkable.

At the end of 2005 they all conspired to release very good updates almost at the same time. I’ve been trying them offline since December, and once I adapted some themes and templates, I’ve updated everything at once this week.

Home/News: Now it will be WordPress 2.0 based.

Illustrations: Upgraded to Coppermine 1.4.3. I was considering to try Gallery 2.0, but since the Coppermine team released this update, and the Gallery guys don’t have an easy Coppermine to Gallery converter, I decided to go for the upgrade road and keep using it a bit more.

Forum: Upgraded to SMF 1.1 RC2. Sadly the old SSI doesn’t seem to want to work with WordPress, so I can’t add the old news loop that used from the forum. Oh well, life goes on.

CpmFetch: Well, this is actually an add-on to put the last image additions on the front or any page.

Some things still need to be tweaked, but well, I just post this to let you all know I’m working in something site related in this new year 2006, expecting to let this set and forget all this backend stuff for at least a year, and focus on content (I do this backend thing enough times in my job, ha ha).