Welcome to the new and slightly improved jedculbertson.com. It has taken me a fair amount of time to roll this out, but no more or less than I was expecting.
What You See
What you”ll notice in the front is a new blogging section. I”ve been mulling over for a while now how to best communicate myself on this not-so-new-anymore internet. Between Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, and numerous blogs including all those at Grace Church and our personal family one, jedhome.net, it would seem that I could have all lanes of the information superhighway covered. My goal, however, is to use both the internet and my time most efficiently.
There is also the fact that each publishing opportunity offers its own unique readership. My close and extended family probably do not care to know that I recently upgraded the syndication system for my website. Nor do the junior highers at Grace Church seek to view lengthy videos of my son (cute as they may be).
I arrived at the conclusion that my myriad insights are best directed, to the best of my ability, to the most likely target audience. Are you able to subscribe to all of me, if you so choose? Of course. How flattering. But if you would rather glimpse certain sides of me, while being shielded from others, be my guest.
What You Don”t
First, due to the way I initially set up this website, it always read jedculbertson.com/jedculbertson/page, rather than simply jedculbertson.com/page. That annoyed me to no end. I tried several methods to correct this, even going into the mod_rewrite rules of Apache, but couldn”t remedy the situation. My knowledge is very wide, but not too deep in a lot of places, this being one of them.
This, coupled with a chance to upgrade the site”s content management system, afforded the perfect opportunity to set things straight. It took about a day of code wrangling, but I finally got things looking like they did before the move.
Because of the added blogging functionality, I wanted to add rss or atom capability so that people could read these entries in an aggregator. Another bit of code and behind the scenes stuff to make that happen. Lest you think me talented at this sort of thing, I must fully confess that I stand on the shoulders of giants. (J.R. thanks again for that great piece of code!)
What You Want To See
If I’m leaving anything out, feel free to let me know. I”m just a guy trying to best represent himself, his family and Christ online and off.