Alright, it's been a work in progress for more than two months now, off and on. I'm not a designer, and I finally decided to stop trying to force it. It's not the prettiest layout in the world, but I wanted to focus more on functionality anyway.

I had some trouble updating to the new version. The templates weren't the only thing to change, and Dreamhost is not very python friendly. It's fine, as I'll be getting a new host soon, but it was a headache that very easily could have been prevented. Among the big changes, the path to the feed has changed to http://theironlion.net/feeds/blog. I've set up an Apache redirect so Django will stop harassing me about the errors, but updating your feed reader will ensure that you don't get cut off when I decide to delete the redirect later on.

It's late now, and I really need to get to bed. It feels good to be back and blogging again after spending so much time working with the tools I use to blog with... Here's a tip: Don't roll your own CMS if you don't have to.

Update: I couldn't be bothered to test this on anything but Firefox 3, so if it's broken, drop me an email or something. There are a significant amount of features that didn't like python2.3 on dreamhost very much, and so they aren't being displayed currently. When I make the migration to a new host, I'll set them back up again.