Well, I thought that I’d go ahead and knuckle down and begin work on fixing the blog registration issue that Unsilence has had for nearly a year. Then I ran into a snag: I don’t have my login information for my webhost account.
As soon as I get that resolved, I should be able to bring registrations back online.
I am now beginning the process of moving the old blog over to this one, so any comments that you wish to make on any previous posts of mine should be made here and not the old site. Don’t bookmark this URL though, because by the end of the weekend, it won’t work and my original domain, www.armyof1in10.net, will be the URL for this blog.
This past month that I’ve been working on bringing SIU online has been very long and I started getting a bit impatient for the launch date to arrive. But it came and went, and the launch went very well. SLDN has registered a blog (which I hope they use on a regular basis), and there’s a new blog: CPT Queer’s Army. I don’t know who he is, but I hope he starts blogging soon. I’m sure we’ll see some great and insightful things coming from him!
I’m also going to start putting together some tutorials for the first-time user, because there really are a lot of features packed into this site, and it might seem a little overwhelming at first for some people. If anyone wants to contribute to that, I’ll be more than happy to accept the help. I want to make SIU the best blogging host for LGBT Service Members there is (right now, it’s the only one, so by default it’s already the best).
Well, Day 2 of Serving in Unsilence’s official existence has ended, and it’s already receiving quite a bit of traffic. I’ve been monitoring the referrers to see who’s linking, and there are quite a few links from sites I’ve never seen, so that tells me that the word of mouth is spreading rapidly. I even noticed a link from a MySpace group which gave me the idea of creating a MySpace profile for myself, to which I’ve added another link to SIU.
In launching Serving in Unsilence, I worked closely with the fine folks at SLDN to ensure that the site’s terms of service and privacy policy were as strong as they could be. The published TOS and Privacy Policy are products of their suggestions and concerns. I fully believe that they will give me the legal leverage necessary to protect the identities of users on this site.
My other blog, An Army of 1 in 10, will be moving to this one over the course of this weekend. The URL will remain the same though – http://www.armyof1in10.net/. I have a way of linking this blog to that domain, so the current address to this particular blog will no longer be valid once I make the move.
I will also be adding another theme or two to the site for people to choose from. There aren’t a crap-load of themes offered (like other blog hosts do) for a couple of reasons:
As time goes by, there will be more and more themes available, but each has to go through an editing and testing phase. This takes time, and I’m only one person. I’m also very picky about the themes that are made available — I don’t want to offer crappy themes that look awful and/or don’t work very well.
I also intend to add more features to the site, and I have a few in mind but they need to mature a little more before they can be offered for use on here. I am, of course, open to suggestions for new features for the site. Let me know!
