The site is mostly reborn. The new platform (WordPress) presents many advantages – and clumsy weaknesses as well. One of note: the platform’s silly segregation of (blog) posts vs (non-blog) pages creates hassles, but I’m working through them.

Many old bits (no-longer-relevant announcements, ancient polls, newsletter content, etc.) have been dropped. Forums are missing (if they’re to be restored, that’s a separate big job). User registration is inactive (and unneeded?). Old comments are generally intact, but a few may have gone AWOL. Page view counters are nuked entirely. (Kind of too bad; some pages had many tens of thousands of hits.) The “Related Posts” feature may or may not remain by the time you read this; for any given post, the new platform is completely throwing darts at utterly unrelated stuff. (It’s not even trying.)

Many links are sure to be broken. Some text may refer to sidebar content that no longer exists. Graphic presentation (i.e., site theme) will be strapped down and experimented upon; expect wrenching changes in appearance, without warning. Also expect plenty of “Under maintenance” downtime for a while. All these things will get cleaned up.

Otherwise . . . same ol’ same ol’. But now with mobile-friendly design and far greater ease of maintenance and posting. So we’ll see what that brings.