Jersey Mike

Welcome, friends, to the newest, freshest, dopest, flyest, tweakedest, most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetsational version of JerseyMike.org.

I’ve finally caught up with the times and have upgraded my WordPress template to the much sleeker, incredibly more customizable and totally more robust version 2.6.1.

But I need to pause here and say that this absolutely, positively, definitely, certainly would not have happened had it not been for the expertise offered by two people. First, the one and only Tattoo Jim of The Illustrated Man notoriety. I ran into Jim over a year ago on State Street and I told him then that I was looking for a new host. And when the time came to finally pull the trigger on the host-switch, Jim was absolutely awesome with coaching my hosting-illiterate self through the process. I probably called him twenty times over the whole deal and he was almost always immediate in his replies and never once lost patience. If you’re thinking about switching hosts and want to support a local dealer, call Tattoo Jim.

And secondly, I’ve got to thank my hero-of-the-day Jonathan Smith - the man behind the magic at SmithCreate.com/

You see, I’ve never met Jonathan Smith- but we’re both on Twitter. And after weeks and weeks of frustration in trying to get the sites switched over, I posted my lament on Twitter. And Jonathan @dziner Smith stepped up and fixed in fifteen minutes what I had wrestled with for weeks.  (Thanks, Jon)

There’s a long story behind how I wound up here and which hosts I’ve been with, but after nearly six hours of playing with the new dashboard, installing a couple of new templates, tweaking the templates, cropping photos and generally digging around under the hood of this new platform, I’m entirely too fried to explain.

But long story short, here it is!

New blog. New template. New host.

I’ve begun to make some changes to the general layout and content of the site and will likely do so for the next week or so. I know that most of my outbound links are missing- that’s because I did something wrong in the transfer and wound up with doubles of all of them. So I deleted them all and started from scratch. SO- I know that there a bunch of them missing- and I’m going to add them all back, but it’ll take a bit to remember them all.

Feel free to leave your link in a comment on this post or shoot me an email. I’ll add them all back in soon.

Something else that’s new is the URL’s of my posts. I switched from the jerseymike.org/p=#321 format to the much-more-aesthetically-pleasing jerseymike.org/09/this-is-how-the-url-looks-now.

I hear that it helps with SEO.

We’ll see.

Hmm, what else? Oh yeah- check out the rotating image in the header. I like that feature.

And there’s also an option to set a static homepage – but there’s some code finagling that needs to be done which I don’t really have the patience or mental capacity to complete tonight.

So, here it is.

If you happen to find any bugs or goofy shit happening, feel free to shoot me an email or comment here and let me know.

We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming shortly…