Now Launching…Grand Effect!
After a couple of different names and a varying member list, I’m proud to present to you the (almost) finished version of the Grand Effect tech blog network. We’re not a network in the sense that we’re planning on growing to include a whole bunch of websites, like traditional blog networks do. Instead, we’re offering a few quality blogs for you to browse through, all accessible from the handy-dandy network bar at the top of our websites. (RSS readers - this is where you click through to see what I mean!) We will grow this network slowly over time, but will never have more members than fit on the network bar. We hope you’ll take the time to visit the other sites in the network as they appear.
You’ll also notice the new and improved design for my site, www.sarahintampa.com. I’ve finally made the move to WordPress from TypePad and it’s not as easy as you think! Without David’s help, I would have been lost when it came to truncating permalink slugs to match TypePad’s 15-character-max structure. That would have been a lot of broken links! (For future reference, the trick was to run this SQL: alter table wp_posts modify post_name varchar(15) to truncate them, then alter table wp_posts modify post_name varchar(200) to set it back to the WP default.) Fixing post images is still in the works, so forgive the broken links in the archives. It’s coming.
In the meantime, feel free to visit other sites in the network, and rest assured, with this project finally wrapping up, more great sarahintampa.com posts will go live soon!
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The new site design looks cool, Sarah! Clean & easy to read, but with a bit of personality, and good colors, too.
I like the approach to the network - very simple and straightforward. I’ve had a “network” where I update all but a few of the blogs for a while, and I’ve always had trouble feeling like people knew one blog was related to the others (but google knows all the same).
Are you going to BarCamp Miami? re: on twitter - @liberatr
If you’re able to drive to Orlando, you should come up next Monday for Florida Creatives Happy Hour - it’s a fun time.
I’m adding you on twitter now…
I would love to be able to come for a happy hour sometime, but wow, I’m overcommitted right now with Read Write Web, Channel 10, here, and the network as a whole.
No plans on BarCamp either
Nice redesign! I like! Of course, I’m biased, since my favorite color is blue
Anyway, looking forward to checking out these other blogs in the network.
And I wanted to mention: it seems that your switch to WP has triggered something in the RSS feed, your 9 latest posts were duplicated. Though it might just be Google Reader acting up…just wanted to let you know ^_^
I was waiting for Tommy to have another Tampa area blogger dinner, but looks like that hasn’t happened yet. Maybe after I’m back in town next week we should get on Skype so I can get you on the Florida Creatives website.
Just last night I posted an interview with Johannes from monochrom. You may recognize them from BoingBoingTV, where they have regular appearances. The most recent video is MyFacePlace, the Musical - Johannes plays the villain, and Evelyn is also sitting there, but she wasn’t talking in the interview because she was “on holiday”.