I finally made the switch from Yahoo hosting, primarily because I was finding their PHP limitations to be too much and I wanted the features offered by PHP 5 and the removal of restrictions on sending emails (Yahoo limits to 100/day). However, Yahoo is still my domain registrar and the change in IP addresses for domain are still propagating and may take up to 72 hours to complete.

Now, once the propagation completes, the original links out there will work again. In the meanwhile, Yahoo is forwarding the domain to this one (my personal domain). After the propagation, either will work, but I'll probably generally use the grumpyjohns.com domain for linking to the site.

I terms of grumpyjohns links out there, if you substitute "damncats.org" for "grumpyjohns.com" and leave the rest the same, you will land on the article you expect. This is a 'hack' I put in the system to assist me in the migration and to keep all the links out there the same.

Now, about the site... It's a major change, I hope you like it. I'm no designer, but I think I did okay, let me know what you think.

First, I've dropped Drupal. There were a few reasons for this:

1. The upgrade from 5 to 6 was painful and didn't work right. That left me with 5 on the Yahoo site.

2. I found the attempt to move my gallery module to Drupal 6 to be a major pain. The documentation was scarce and the effort was more than I was willing to invest.

3. I found Drupal to be painfully slow, especially in admin operations. Now, that may have been Yahoo for the most part, but even locally I found it sluggish.

Second, I wrote my own CMS. Aside from the Drupal reasons above, I just wasn't satisfied with any of the other options out there. I spent some time playing with Wordpress, but in the end, I just hated the interface. Net effect, I wrote my own because I can and I decided that I should just stop messing around with settling for something I don't want.

Not all of the features are complete, but once I'm satisfied that I have a "releasable" version, I'll publish the source. Right now, the major modules in place are for user management, article creation/management, and photo gallery. I'm planning some additional modules including a link manager and a forum. I suspect, given the traffic volumes, the forum won't be that busy on my site...

In the meantime, welcome and enjoy!