The day after the day after

So, Thursday's here, and we've been up for a few days now without any glaring train wrecks. It'll do. We've had some good feedback since pulling the trigger: Many thanks for the encouragement out there.....and yes, we're working on the search capability, which seems to be the one consistent question that readers have had.

From my viewpoint, anything would be better than the search on GazetteNET 6.0, which couldn't even handle more than one word reliably at a time. My dirty little secret is that I usually used Google for any kind of complex search on the old site, by employing a basic-but-good Google trick of appending site:dailyhampshiregazette.com to the end of the search. This will work for narrowing a search to any site, BTW -- site:nytimes.com or whatever. Google is trememdouly powerful, of course; this search will yield any number of pages with cool tricks for drilling down to specific infomation, and I like this list from Lifehacker, a particular favorite site of mine.

Today, though, I'll dip back into our old technology. The Amherst Bulletin's site is still running on our old software. (For the tech-oriented, we were on Cold Fusion as our server software before; now we're built on Drupal, an open-source Web content management package built atop php. We now return you to your English-language blog post, already in progress....) So it's back to the past rather than the future for a while, until we convert that over to Drupal as well. I'll just try to think of myself as bilingual for the time being.