So you may have noticed a fairly significant change here at good old twosittingducks.com. Everything is looking very ‘default’ and all of the old stuff has gone missing.

Basically, I realised that the old site was running on a host that seemed to be incredibly slow. That made visiting, editing, updating and managing the site a real pain. The site had also gotten a bit bloated. The site content had migrated through a number of content management systems, starting with Movable Type 2.6 (that was a long time ago!), through the MT versions up to 3.2. At that point I switched to WordPress. To make my job of transitioning easier, I actually left the old Movable Type installation running as well as the new WordPress system. It worked, but it wasn’t pretty.

In addition to that, the Gallery program was annoying me. I started to prefer using an external site, [Zooomr](http://zooomr.com/), to host our images. That was easier than hosting it on my own server, but their service has been a little unreliable.

Finally, I felt that the old format of twosittingducks.com was getting a little stale. The self-imposed discipline of having to put a picture up with every post started to work against me. Sometimes I just wanted to throw up a quick comment, or a link to a site, but didn’t want to bother with a photo. Yet doing that would have broken the continuity of the site.

The upshot is that I’ve simply decided to make a fresh start. I’ve got a new server, which will hopefully be quicker than the old one. It’s also easier to use and manage. I did archive the old site, but I don’t think I’m going to put any of it up here. It’s liberating to have a fresh start. I’m sure Google will have a cache of everything anyway! One positive is that all those myspace sites that had pinched our photos for use on their god-awful templates will have to find new pictures.

Expect things to be a little sparse around here as I get the site up into a format that is a little more interesting than the default WordPress theme. It might take me a little while though, because I simply don’t have as much time as I used to.

Finally, please check your bookmarks/RSS feeds for this site. I used to run the site from a subdirectory, but now it’s all simply twosittingducks.com. Much cooler.