Hurm.com was registered on July 15, 1997. Which means, of course, it'll be 10 years old in the middle of next year.

How will I celebrate, if at all? I'm not sure, but I do know that, to help my web-based sites and projects move forward, I need to first do a bit of "house cleaning" behind the scenes. This will include some changes that will be visible to any regular visitors I have.

Here's a brief note as to why I'm making these changes and how they will probably affect things.

Problem: I have multiple websites, each with its own blog. I did this on purpose, to allow each website's news and project entries to be self-contained within it's own archives. However, each time I start a new website project, I spend less time on each blog.

Solution: Maintain one master "news blog" that can be broadcast into each of my websites. Project-specific entries (such as Local Heroes comic updates) would be maintained by its particular project-site.

Notes:

• Each site's archives will focus on its particular creations instead of mixing creation notes with news
• Internal searches will not be "damaged," as all subsites will search the main news archives or their individual project archives with each search attempt
• External searches (Google, Yahoo!, etc.) may be "damaged" (or maybe just altered) as each project-site has less individual news archives and archives become more theme-specific
• Hurm.com will end up being more of a central hub for my web efforts
• Nowheresville will become hurm.com/news/, although nowheresville.org will still exist by pointing to hurm.com/news/.

The Plan:

1. Update Nowheresville categories [Done]
2. Change /hurm/news/ to /hurm/newsfeeds/ (Change settings, too) [Done]
3. Change /nowheresville/ directory/settings to /news/ [Done]
4. Republish new /news/ blog [Done]
5. Point nowheresville.org to /hurm/news/ [Done]
6. Add multi-blog settings into all subsites [Done]
7. Copy all Hurm.com news into the Nowheresville blog [Done]
8. Delete copied Hurm.com news from Hurm.com blog (can leave HTML pages) [Done]
9. Copy all Local Heroes news into the Nowheresville blog [Done]
10. Copy all Local Heroes comments into the Nowheresville blog [Unnecessary]
11. Delete copied Local Heroes news (and comments) from Local Heroes blog (can leave HTML pages) [Done]
12. Create one shared multi-blog comments format for all subsites [Done]
13. Create one master set of RSS pages [Done]
14. Create separate sets of RSS pages for "all news," "all news plus projects" for each project, etc. [Done]
15. Create one multi-blog master archive page for all subsites [In Progress]
16. Create one master About page for all sites (Alternately, revise existing About pages) [In Progress]
17. Create one master Links page for all sites (Alternatively, revise existing Links pages) [In Progress]
18. Create one universal 404 page [Not Yet Started]
19. Leave all retired pages for anywhere from 4 months through end of year

As I move through the plan, I'll add short updates to this entry.

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