René Seifert – Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

Anybody noticed anything? :-) Although it looks just like a polishing of the surface, there was much more work to it. Without showing-off, the effort was quite what I thought it would be: significant. In brief: Migration of existing content from Movable Type to WordPress, change of infrastructural environment to another hoster and the obvious graphical redesign.

As I became increasingly frustrated with the instability of my old system which I thought would crash every day, the change became a necessity not just a nerdy passion. Especially, as I got used to the neat back-end from WordPress through the blogging that I do for Holzbrinck eLAB. No wonder that the Open Source solution from WordPress by now is the most favorite software for bloggers who want to run the publishing in their own environment. Unlike using the convenient, yet hosted Blogger.com which for my requirements does not bring all the degrees of freedom. Also, I decided to switch the time code which displays when a blog was posted to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) , more or less the same as Universal Time Code (UTC), in aviation simply called Zulu-Time .  

For the technical nitty-gritty, there was quite a bit involved: Making sure that the old URLs are preserved, making sure that the old RSS-feed would not get discontinued etc. And it was a real flat-world project where I'd like to thank Rado and Mirko from Mineus in Prague (Czech Republic) for the technical expertise and putting up with my fuddy-duddy requests, Fred from Agentur 2 in Munich (Germany) for the graphical design. Myself in the middle as a coordinator mostly from Bangalore, I don't have to thank at this point ;-)

Hope you sort of like it. Let me know.