I set up an unmanaged VPS to run http://stevejbayer.net (.com is the website your on now)
The reason I set up the VPS was to learn how to setup wildcard DNS's for Anglo-Indian Blogs on my own. While my second webhost were great performance wise for a Wordpress Multi-User website such as angloindianblogs.com, they were a bit pricey in terms of Hard Disk space (Hey I need a lot more than half a gigabyte as a web developer running over 10 domains)
My third webhost was great for drupal websites but not much else.
While a VPS is more expensive than shared hosting, it does allow users to have more control on what runs on their hosting platform. My current VPS while great hardware wise just aren't supportive as my probably fifth webhost or second VPS host. If I make a transition to the fifth VPS host, I'll probably be able to start hosting websites dedicated to wordpress and wordpress websites on one server and have another server dedicated to Drupal websites.
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While http://stevejbayer.com and http://stevebayer.net both have a google page rank of 4, I'm mothballing and pulling content from there over to http://stevejbayer.com since stevejbayer.com has a lot more visitors than stevebayer.net
Exercising my theming skills, I've transformed http://stevejbayer.com/resources into a replica of its stevebayer.net counterpart. That's right, I got the pushbutton theme to work on just one page of the site thanks to http://drupal.org/node/139766 while the remaining pages share a different theme. There was a bit of sidebar juggling involved as the theme in use right now (Barron) has the left sidebar as the default sidebar but displays it on the right. A bit of switching php calls and td (gasp a drupal core theme uses tables?)
Recent blog posts
- Mothballing stevebayer.net
- Who should design your website? A visual designer, an interacion designer or an information architect?
- Download the Google Chrome Web Browser From here
- Google Chrome
- Latest Vertical tabs module
- Google Search analysis off target?
- Think Dynamik relaunches their site with a great guide to the UX process
- The True Drupal 6 experts as of August 1 2008
- Things To Add to my to do checklist Summer 2008
- Break down of time used for sites as large as the New York Times observer
Usability News Feeds
UX and Information Architecture
- Everything New is Old Again
- Stuart Morgan lecture: Giving Form to Vision: Balancing the Three Disciplines of Leadership, Innovation, & Execution (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Understanding non-users
- Network and Learn - An evening of user experience design and information architecture discussion - Hosted by Organic (West Bloomfield)
- John Maeda's Inauguration Speech at RISD
