A little while ago I recieved an email from the company I had my website with since 2013. They were gonna increase the annual price by a whopping +200% by mid February! The new price for a year with them would be $864.00.
That is of course a completely insane price to pay for having a blog. Even if I was loaded with coins I would turn my back to such an extortion attempt, so my advice is to steer well clear of Square/Weebly.
Luckily there are other, and often better options out there and I spent some of the next days reading up on website builders. After testing out a few builders a little bit, I made my choice and started one morning two weeks ago to make a new website and rescue some of my ten year old blog.
It took a few long days and a couple of deep cups of red wine, and with some invaluable help from GirlfriendWife we had the new and improved HobbyHistorica page live and up and running yesterday.
I realized quickly into the process that moving ten years worth of blog posts with their accompanying photos and videos, metatags, SEOs and whatnot would take almost forever, so I "archived" almost every write-up between 2013-2019. Most of the posts from 19 until end of season 2024 can be read on this sparkling new and fresh site.
Some of what were archived will probably become a couple of book projects in the near future.
The articles and reports I chose to use I had to move manually, and gave them all a little bit of a revamp.
I did not rebuild the shop part, but I might add a shop a little different than the old one at some point.
Learning to use a new builder was a bit frustrating in the beginning, but now after these weeks I must at least have a purple- or red belt in website building.
Mostly everything is on place now. There might be a little tweaking and polishing needed here and there, and I have a few of the old articles I`ll be adding still, and a few new ones too. And naturally there is the forest of broken links to try to deal with. But until then, I am gonna lean back and enjoy the weekend and a jug of red, and I hope that you like the new website.
... and it is only three and a half month until the new digging season ;)
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