Metro GOOD, url rewriting BAD


Posted on Friday September 2011


No blog post this week :)

I have spent some time instead sorting out url redirects and rewrites so I can have:

  • A canonical domain name benmcevoy.com.au
  • Multiple domains running on my hosting

Using the url module was quite awful. Most of the time was spent trying to find the documentation and swearing.

And I spent some time dinging up a new home page, influenced by the new metro style in Windows 8. Any one running <IE9 – I care not for you. I’m trying to pull in my last tweet and blog post into the tiles, but there are still a few bugs to be ironed out. Works fine in FF! I think it looks pretty good (for me)!

For sake of posterity here she is:

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