My, I got goosebumps from that title.  Anyone know why?  😉

Side note: I like this new smiley stuff.  Kinda silly while simultaneously arousing an almost inappropriately gratifying sensation… (said only for the compulsory 😉 that such concepts must surely require when written from within the state of Texas.  Bah.).

You’ll be happy to know that I’ve found the new gallery system I’ll use here and am working on implementing it.  It integrates nicely into the new site engine and is feature rich.  It won’t take much time to get it installed and configured, but it will take plenty of time for me to get the photos uploaded and the galleries fully restored.  There are quite a few photos that I need to edit to reduce the PPI (pixels per inch).  Many of the original digital photos I took were uploaded with their original pixel depth intact.  That’s not a good thing.  They need to be reduced to 72 PPI so they’ll load quicker in all browsers.  Their current density can really slow down an older or dial-up system because they’re high-density pics.  I’ll get all of the web-optimized photos uploaded as quickly as possible, but understand that I’ll be checking each of them beforehand so I don’t druggedly upload all of them anyway.

This means that I’m not importing all of the old posts.  Anything related to the gallery or that relies on the gallery pictures is being excluded until I get far enough to enabled them.  OK, I meant anything except for anything related to The Kids since I simply must have them setup already; you know how they are…).

I’m excited about this rebirth.  Melodramatic?  Perhaps.  But this revamp of xenogere / strange behavior / is challenging, entertaining (especially as I read some of my older posts), drudgingly tedious, and very exhilarating.  The new site engine lets me focus more on content and less on administration, it’s much cleaner and easier to use, it provides the functions I need without being bloatware (sometimes via extensibility!), is much easier to template (giving me, the artistically challenged, an easier shot at having a site that’s at least somewhat cool yet personalized), and provides a cleaner interface that doesn’t “smell” of something — which, despite all attempts at forcefully inducing malleability, PostNuke sites still smell like *nuke sites when all you’ve seen is a link :roll:).

Side note: Hee hee.  Another smiley.  😛  Anyone else feeling delirious?

The moral of the story is that I’m working diligently on getting the site fully operational.  I’m excited about blogging again, although I’m still just little ol’ me.  I’m not shooting for membership in the 1337 club :cool:.