Enniskerry Bridge with traffic passing

Posted Posted by McAWilliams in Bray, Bridges, photography, vehicles     Comments 9 comments    Previousprevious post: A photoblogger perhaps | next post: Dublin Zoo Heron next
Nov
22

Hello and welcome to McAWilliams.com the new improved version, but more about that later.

This photograph was taken up on the new bridge which connects Bray with Enniskerry, which opened last week. I am getting home at 7pm ish so I decided to try a traffic zooming by type shot, I think this worked quite well, anyhow onto the main story.

As you may well know, Movabletype 4 proved to be a big headache for me, so much so that I decided to change platform all together and move to WordPress. I thought it would be easy enough, how mistaken I was the install etc was fantastic and to be fair to the WordPress programmers they aint lied about the fact it is quite easy. My problem was how I used Moveabletype over the years.

I coded all the templates in Movabletype myself and as such used the default entry page in a strange way, I had also created custom entry fields using a plugin for the likes of meta keywords and descriptions etc, these fields unfortunately did not transfer to the database I had to create for WordPress, and in the mayhem I lost all the details I had spent years entering.

So with WordPress I had to start from scratch all that remained from the old site were the entry details and comments but all pictures keywords descriptions for 411 entries had to be re-entered from scratch, hence the delay.

I am using a theme for now but will be modifying this to get some originality back into McAWilliams.com, and what do I think of WordPress, well as I told Caitriona tonight I aint looking back.


9 Comments to “Enniskerry Bridge with traffic passing”

  • November 22, 2007 at 10:59 am
    Silent Zed says:

    Liking the new design John, seems much cleaner and less confusing – although I get the feeling you wont be keeping it this way for long, as your like me, and like to tinker with things.

  • November 22, 2007 at 3:16 pm
    Øyvind says:

    Congratulations with the new look :-)

  • November 22, 2007 at 3:27 pm
    McAWilliams says:

    Cheers guys, just attempting to get keyords and descriptions working a bit better now. then come the fun part messing with the css.

  • November 22, 2007 at 3:33 pm
    Claire says:

    I really like the new look John, really brings out the photos. Have fun playing with the CSS but remember to save it before you change anything!! Haha, that’s bitter experience talking there :D

  • November 22, 2007 at 3:37 pm
    caitriona says:

    yay for new layouts AND new content!!!

    durnit. does this mean i’m going to have to upgrade and redesign. hrmm…

  • November 22, 2007 at 6:39 pm
    Donncha O Caoimh says:

    Glad you made the move to WordPress! :)

    Nice long exposure too, cold up there on the bridge? Last time I took a similar shot it was freezing!

  • November 22, 2007 at 7:06 pm
    McAWilliams says:

    Well Donncha, at least I know if I ever have any wordpress queries I can shout down to you :-D

    The page you showed me helped to make up my mind, but I was so used to coding in HTML now I have to learn php uuuugggghhhh.

    But the plugins and the community that seems to be around with wordpress is very very impressive and now that my site has gone dynamic, the speed is amazing too.

    Thanks again for your help in my decision.

  • November 22, 2007 at 11:32 pm
    Dave says:

    Lovin the new look, everything much easier to use. Get your arse down to grafton St soon, some lovely shots available.

  • November 23, 2007 at 11:53 am
    Donncha’s Friday Links at Holy Shmoly! says:

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