From two months to two weeks, we are now down to a few days before this web site is blown to pieces. Don’t worry, this time there won’t be a void left behind but rather a new big bang. Home Studio v3 is almost here!

After almost half a year in development, the third installation of this web site is almost ready to go live. The new site has gone through extensive testing - something which I didn’t do with the current incarnation of HS. Rather than building it as I went along, this time I sat down, planned, took notes, planned some more and before I even wrote a line of code, I already had a clear picture of how it was all going to work out.

Version 3 has been tested, broken and brought back to life so many times it is almost bulletproof. Over the course of this past half a year, there have been a large amounts of updates - not only for the plugins that are I’m using, but also to WordPress itself. With the old site, everytime I updated my blog the entire site collapsed. Pieces of code here and there stopped working and  I couldn’t for the life of me understand why - until I realised that rather than trying to include WordPress in my own work, I should try the opposite approach. And it worked.

The new site will be entirely managed by WordPress and will feature a lot of new goodies, but rather than spoiling the fun beforehand, I’ll keep quiet for now. I need to finish importing some material and go through all the pages one more time to check that all the info is in place, but as soon as I’m done with that, version 2 is history.

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