If Jesus Had A Website

You may have noticed that some of my postings have dwindled in the past year.  I had attempted the relaunch of the site, which quickly ended up fizzling because I just hadn’t found the time and energy to keep up with it.  There have been several reasons for that, with the greatest being the additional time and energy that fatherhood demands.

However, another big reason for the downturn has been my satisfaction with my previous blogging platform.  It was a ColdFusion-based solution (which I have a bias towards being a ColdFusion developer) which was very solid.  However, I had made a number of customizations to it to meet my needs, which make keeping up with new revisions nearly impossible.  So, I have not been able to take advantage of new fixes and functionality, and have not had the time to redo the adjustments I had put together for previous versions.

So, I made the pretty radical decision to completely change platforms for my blog, to a more widely used application that I allows me to make customizations, but still keep up with version changes going forward.

However, the one big drawback to this is that I lost all comments on my posts (my new platform did not support importing them from my old platform), which is kind of a downer.  I do still have them all in backups, but have no easy way to tie them into the new setup.

Yet, I think the transition will be worth it.  I’ll have the time to focus more on writing and less on trying to maintain my old hack-and-slash solution, which is what I’d like to do anyway.

Wow…it's already been a year, hasn't it?  (Well, at least since I legitimately updated IfJesusHadAWebsite.net.)

The reason?  Well, I simply lost my inspiration for the site.  It had been over a year since I had done any church website work, and it was becoming harder to write from the perspective of the church webmaster.  Week-to-week, I just wasn't sure what to write about any more, and just didn't feel called to keep writing.  So I started to let the blog fade into the background…

That is until a few weeks ago when I got inspired again.  However, the song of inspiration was different this time…

So now, If Jesus Had A Website is relaunching as a Christian life blog, aiming to write about the lives we live and how they are and should be influenced by our faith. 

Yes, I realize that that is a rather broad topic, but my thoughts range all across the spectrum anyway, so that's probably a good thing for you and I both.  I've also toyed with the idea of bringing in some guest writers as well to help represent a variety of perspectives to the blog and provide more food for thought to us all.

So, welcome to the new If Jesus Had A Website, and I hope you enjoy the new material and perspectives we have coming…

[P.S. - All the old posts are still around, if you're looking for them.  They've been relegated to the archives, but can still be found by searching!]