Welcome to the updated Dinners From Hell website! You’ll still find all of the stories and comments that the previous site had. But you’ll also find that surfing through our pages offers a much more enjoyable and satisfying experience.
Changes were made out of necessity as well as for desired improvements. The software previously used – Microsoft FrontPage – is acutely outdated and non-supported. It also lacks a lot of features that people have come to expect from today’s websites and blogs. WordPress was selected as its replacement because of its compliance with web standards, for the many great tools and resources that are available for it, and because it’s much more suitable for sites with dynamic content. It provides improved organization and easier navigation, quicker load times, a cleaner and less cluttered appearance, unique web addresses for posts (permalinks), tags for sorting of stories by key words, and a more prominent display of comments.
Accompanying the change in software were changes made to the site itself. Dining link resource pages (Restaurant Reviews, Dining With Kids, etc.) were removed, as were the Dining Videos and Dining News pages. The changes were made in order to be relieved of the chore of maintaining hundreds of active links, and so that Dinners From Hell could singularly focus on what it was originally designed to do – provide a venue for dining hell stories. Other changes include renaming Dining Features to “Dining Blogs” and adding a Fast Food category.
Unfortunately there was no way to transfer requests for comment notifications over to the new site. Those seeking to find comments that they made on the previous site can use the search engine to find their names on the updated one. Also, story ratings could not be moved over. And for the record, noted publication days for stories that originated on the other site aren’t necessarily the day in which they were originally posted (months and years correctly reflect when the stories were posted on the previous site, however, except for some posts in Dining Hell Blogs).
Special thanks goes to those who’ve made contributions to Dinners From Hell – folks who’ve shared their stories, posted comments, offered advice, provided information, and helped to inform others about the website.
Here’s to many more years of sharing a cornucopia of foodie fun in Dinners From Hell.
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