The Search for a Single Site for sbp

By starting this page, I'm hoping that Sir Sean Palmer of the B squad will enlighten us on how and why to turn his multiple websites into a condensed place for webbery.

-- Cody, who mangles headers for alleterick purity.

infomesh.net

The big question at the moment is whether I'll even be able to retain the domain; I didn't notice the reminder emails because the account I had been using for it was closed down, and it's been hosted free for quite some time now due to an error on my host's behalf. Now that I want to transfer it to a different server, I also want to consolidate all my domains into the same registrar, which is the wonderful Gandi. Domains are about 14 EUR (9.55 GBP) per annum there, so not the cheapest, but you also get this awesome French-English instructions all the way through: "read carefully contract".

But assuming that I do manage to retain infomesh.net, the question is what I'm going to do with it. There are a lot of resources on the site that really need to persist, such as RDF-in-HTML (@@ extend context menu in Firefox to deal with Google History!), and An Introduction to the Semantic Web. At the moment there's 150 MB of material in infomesh.net, but I hope to bring that way down.

The quality of material on infomesh.net varies, and not all of it even needs to have a persistent URI so low is its quality. On the other hand, infomesh.net is very much deprecated for inamidst.com which is served from Vorpal currently thanks to AaronSw, so it would be nice to merge as much of it as possible into inamidst.com; in fact there's even the possibility of redirecting infomesh.net at / to a directory on inamidst.com.

I need to transfer mysterylights.com first (not sure what to do with that domain either—I could redirect it to /lights/ perhaps), which is going to take up to five days—it's making it a bit tight!

At the moment, I tend to think that concreting the best pages of infomesh.net is best so that http://infomesh.net/2001/swintro/ remains that *exact* URI in the browser, and then having the lesser resources be redirected via .htaccess to inamidst.com where I can distribute them carefully according to the new URI design methods I employ (RANDOM CARNAGE!!!).

Sean B. Palmer