As you can see, I’ve made a few changes around the old place. Thanks to Erik Telford for pointing me to the excellent hosting site dreamhost.com, where this site is now living. They have a very simple one-click install feature for setting up WordPress blogs. Here’s the 10-cent tour:
As James Brown says, let’s take it from the top. The photo is of the Hagyard Building on Main Street in my hometown — Lenox, Massachusetts. This building is where I lived with my mom and grandparents when I was first born. My grandparents lived on the floor with the bay windows, and my great-uncle and his wife lived upstairs. The first floor was the Hagyard Pharmacy, thus the name of the building. Clicking on the photo will always bring you back to the home page.
Right under the photo is the navigation bar. You can get to my bio and resume, the home page and the links page from here. You can also send me an e-mail using the link that says … wait for it … SEND E-MAIL. Tricky!
On the right side is the other navigation bar. You’ve got the basics repeated there, plus two other snazzy features: Categories and Archives. You can pick a subject area from the category list, and you’ll see all the posts that fit that subject. For example, if you want to read everything I’ve written about the Rochester International Jazz Festival, just click on the RIJF category. Similarly, you can read all the posts from a specific month by choosing that month from the Archives list.
Underneath the archives is the search box. You can search for any word or phrase on the site by entering your text into that box.
Under the search box is the mailing list subscription box. Just type your name and e-mail address into the boxes, and you’ll receive periodic e-mail updates about the site.
If you look way down at the bottom, you’ll find the RSS feed. You can plug that link into your news reader or other RSS reader and get the updates delivered right to you every time I add something new.
Soon, I’ll be adding more multimedia files, including the new Jason Crane Show podcast.
Drop me a line to let me know what you think of the new site, and thanks for stopping by!
