This update has been sitting half-baked in my computer since last autumn, and finally I decided it was time to release it.

The biggest visible change is the new theme with black background, meant to enhance the color of the photos which are after all the main content of the site. Also, I decided to jump on the bandwagon and move to Flickr as the location for all my shared photos, mostly because it’s just the simplest way. The “moblog” is demoted to a mere post category, and finally I removed the guestbook because it had become a magnet for spam.

Under the hood, Balenet is now powered by Wordpress 2.5, which seems to be the mainstream in terms of free weblog softwares. It was very easy to set up and import all the old posts, although I found the theme mechanism a little hard to master. I haven’t followed the evolution of Movable Type lately, but all in all I prefer Wordpress so far. 

For the editing I moved to Coda, a clever web editor for Mac OS X that helped me to (finally) learn CSS.

Hope you like it. I’m leaving the comments enabled for a while, at least until the spam starts to pick up.

I have added a guestbook, I’d be happy if you signed it!

The guestbook is based on the NMS Guestbook script with some minor modifications. Many thanks to the authors!

I have updated the website to a new look and added some new features. Also, the pictures I post from the mobile will appear on the main window, which means that I won’t use the old moblog anymore.

Balenet is built on Movable Type 3.17. Many thanks to Claudio who wrote the script used for mobile posting.