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By: David K. Every
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I've been moving over many articles from MacKiDo, preparing to shut that site down, or at least get most of the traffic that it gets diverted to iGeek. I also built a system so that people that go to the old articles get redirected to the new articles and the new site.
   
I radically increased the response time (and load) of the site, by creating a caching solution. So if it seems faster, that's because it is.
  
There are some nice newsreader type tools like NetNewsWire and others that can read RSS/RDF formats; a standardized news-reader format. These tools allow you to keep an eye on many sites at once, and see what's new at a glance; a faster fix for the news addicted. I decided to make iGeek support RSS/RDF. If you use these tools just point to http://www.igeek.com/rss.rdf and whenever I update articles, they should show up in your favorite newsreader. New feature, so report any bugs please.
  
When I created the newer site, it used different URL formats; i.e. old links broke, I fixed that. More than that, spiders/bots/crawlers (search engines) can be persnickety about how URL's look, and not walk (search) dynamic websites. Since I want my articles publicly available and findable (from search engines), I re-did how the site handles URL's. This system is much easier and looks to users and search engines like normal URL's, instead of the parameterized ones used in specialized Applications.
    
I added back the "best of" section, or actually, "of the day". This just picks at random a quote, humor or article from the archives, and puts in on the home page for easy reading; and to remind people that there's a lot in the archives that they probably haven't read, or might enjoy reading again.
  
As if you didn't notice, there are a few changes around here.
I wrote the last version of iGeek to have many features and functions that I don't really need. It is a full content management solutions. This is a different version of code that I had around, that I repurposed. It is a bit simpler, but has a cleaner interface and doesn't try to do as much. I hope you find it easy to use; and I'll add back in some of the missing features over time.
The biggest change is the navigation menu on the left, or that I use a different color scheme.
If you care about the technical side of things, this site also doesn't use a database, and opts instead to use a simpler hierarchical XML based filing system to do almost everything; making it easier to deploy.
I am even considering dumping a very of this simple site tool into public domain; using this system to create websites requires almost no knowledge of HTML at all. But I want to get a few more things completed in it first.
  
Sorry for the infrequent updates lately. I moved iGeek's ISP (Internet Service Provider), again. It is common courtesy to announce when this happens; plus it allows people to feedback if they notice any differences (changes in quality of service, speed or reliability).
The new ISP is dreamhost, and I recommend that you check them out; they seem to offer good support, excellent uptime, for a fair price. 
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