{"id":9196,"date":"2018-02-11T14:34:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca?p=9196"},"modified":"2018-02-12T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:54:05","slug":"a-major-upgrade-for-your-web-site-read-why-i-am-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/a-major-upgrade-for-your-web-site-read-why-i-am-doing-it\/9196","title":{"rendered":"A Major Upgrade for Your Web Site. Read why I have done it."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dunany Web site is almost 10 years old.<\/p>\n

When I set it up in 2009, the iPhone had just been launched and the iPad was still months away. In the wonderful world of technology and software a decade is an eternity. Since the site uses all kinds of applications such as classifieds, PayPal, Spam Filter (35,000 caught so far!) , Language manager etc,\u00a0 it needs to be up to date.<\/p>\n

So<\/span> an upgrade was really overdue. It had to be done.<\/p>\n

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During those years I have been using a WordPress platform – the back end –\u00a0 which is being continuously updated. This freeware has 75,000,000 users. But on top of the platform, one needs a presentation software – a front end –\u00a0 what WordPress calls a Theme. That 2008 theme had become a dinosaur and had to be changed.<\/p>\n

The new theme knows what device you are using, a PC, a tablet or a phone and adapts accordingly.<\/p>\n

I took this opportunity to update some contents such as the description of Dunany and add the bathymetric maps of our lakes on the home page which you can enlarge by clicking on them.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I had some help from a techie from a younger generation to manage the migration and get me started with the new theme.<\/p>\n

Now a few tips.<\/p>\n