I’ve started to migrate my sites to DreamHost. It’s been awesome so far, and I’m glad to FINALLY be with them.

Getting over to DreamHost has been a plan of mine since college, I just haven’t been able to afford it/have already had hosting.

In any case. DreamHost was super easy to setup, provides tons of space and bandwidth (unlimited) and is pretty affordable when you purchase in bulk. It’s also super fast. A lot faster than my previous host.

If you’re interested in using DreamHost, please use my email joel [at] thegoodmanblog [dot] com or click through this link. And, I’d love to answer any questions you have.

Ummmm… that’s about it. This weekend is going to be about getting everything moved over. Jessica has a new job and it makes her work some evenings. Which is sad. But I am hoping to use some of that down time to write music. I’ve been feeling the urge to write for a few weeks, so hopefully this time will be productive for me.

Hopefully there are some other exciting changes happening in the next few months, but nothing I can talk about yet. I have a couple cool projects going on and some other prospects in the works. Stay tuned.

DeanFields.com

Hey, hey. We just launched a new site built on WordPress and using my Prodigious theme.

I built the site for this guy called Dean Fields. He plays some pretty awesome folk-Americana-alt.country sort of music that you should check out. And you should also check out his fantastic new site.

A couple of things: Contrary to what the listing in portofolio says, we didn’t use the Gigs Calendar plugin (which is fantastic, by the way). Dean had a thing going with this ArtistData.com website and he organized all his shows there. The site was a bit tough to work with but I was able to get a raw XML feed to parse for the Upcoming Shows feature. That’s probably what took the longest. The “all shows” view is just an iframe from Artist Data — which I kind of hated to do, but it was the easiest and nicest looking solution.

As far as browsers go, I haven’t done much debugging for IE7 yet. But if you’re here reading my blog you probably don’t use IE7 regularly. Looks great in Safari and Firefox.

The “photo” on the front uses the jQuery Cycle plugin. It’s super cool and I’ve used it on a couple of other projects.

In any case, go check out his new site and his music!

www.deanfields.com

Or so I am assuming. My current hosting arrangement (with Jon D) is up in October. The first of the month, actually. So I have purchased new hosting away from my current host. Which is good in many ways. It also means that you could see some hiccups as I transition. Specifically, this site may be down at times over the next couple of days. I apologize. But it is necessary.

Also. My birthday is tomorrow. Huzzah!

So, this is a lot of hits for my blog.

Holy Crap My Stats

I guess politics does that to people?