Tidying up

Posted by stephen on Thursday, 24th January, 2008 @ 12:19

Today I made this site my OpenID, via a delegation to myOpenID.com (OpenID delegation is a marvellous thing). So now I can login to a variety of sites as freakymousemats.com. Except that I noticed (as I half expected), that my OpenID was in fact www.freakymousemats.com/blog, as there was no root to the site, just a redirect to the blog.

My blog's always been my homepage. And the immediate redirect to /blog/ is a hangover from the days when the site was built in Plone and I couldn't make the blog software serve the root. But it seems a little unnecessary now, so a little Django URL rewiring and the blog is now at the root of the site (with /blog/ gracefully redirecting).

And finally, from reading around about t'modern interweb, the www prefix is considered a little redundant in this day and age. So a couple of template changes later, a reversing of a mod_rewrite rule and this site now sits at http://freakymousemats.com/. And thus my OpenID is elegant and beautiful. And hopefully my site isn't broken.