Welcome back to BaseballWhammy after a long hiatus. With the start of spring training, I thought it would be nice to toss up a new front and back end of the website. I’ve upgraded the backend from Drupal to Wordpress. Wordpress is a lot better to customize your templates, and alter the code up a little bit. I found a decent start to a template, and then I edited it to my own liking. Since the new backend uses a new database, I had to backlog my entries. I have pulled over about 20 or so of them. If you want me to pull back some other specific ones, just drop me a line and I’ll pull it over.

With this CMS (Content Management System), I was better able to customize the layout and side menu items. I went ahead and added a donation link. If you really enjoy the site, and my writings drop me some spare change as it’s not free to run this website, unfortunately. Once I start getting some donations in, I wil be making a donation page, so I will contact every person that sent in a dontation, and I’ll ask if it’s ok for me to use any part of their name or screen name to highlight my donors. Once i get some more modules added to the site, I’ll see if I can get some perks to the people who have donated. If you have any cool ideas for something to add to the site, please let me know.

I hope this season is a good one for the all baseball fans out there. I’m going to try a lot harder to get a daily/bi-daily entry to keep my content fresh and my readers happy. As I’ve mentioned before I’m a big Cubs fan, so many of my entries are about them, but I try to keep everybody happy, so I’ll right about any player or team that strikes up a good entry.

I’ve got some stuff planned on the horizon, and hopefully they become reality before too long.

Welcome back, and let spring training games begin!