Transitioning to Patheos

As I said would happen, at long last this blog is moving to Patheos, the big religion hosting site.  Visitors to the address I’ve been using on my DreamHost server, www.geneveith.com, will eventually, over the course of a week or so, be automatically redirected to the new address:   www.patheos/blogs/geneveith.com.

As I understand it, that will happen sooner for some and later for some.  In the meantime, you can go to the new site here.  If you want, you can set a new bookmark, redo your RSS feeds, etc., though eventually the old address should start working again.

I begin posting at the new site  TODAY.  That’s where you can read today’s posts.

It would help me greatly if you would go ahead and click on to the new site rather than waiting for the automatic redirect.  This is especially so for longtime readers and commenters.  I have written a post on the new site to introduce the Cranach blog to the Patheos universe.  I call on longtime readers to help in that effort, so I hope a lot of you post comments so as to introduce potential new readers to the kind of community we’ve got going here.

Also, I know what some of you are going to say:  “I HATE IT!”  The Patheos format has its quirks that will take getting used to.  The text boxes are smaller than we’re used to, necessitating clicking “Read more.”  I think I’ve increased the pre-set size, but that may be an annoyance for some of you, though I have been aware that my posts are sometimes too long for good visual design.  (Also, when you click “read more” and jump to another page, that adds another page view, and page view totals are what for-profit sites are selling to their advertisers.  And I guess that includes me now, since Patheos will pay me for the number of page views I generate.)  You’ll be annoyed at the big Patheos banner at the top.  You’ll be annoyed with some of the ads.  I’m going to see what I can mitigate or change.  But Patheos also has some excellent features, including links to other interesting and related posts, both on other of their blogs and on earlier Cranach posts.  It will take me awhile to get used to the Patheos template, and there usually are glitches of one kind or another.  Please be patient and please stay with me!  In a little while, I suspect neither you nor I will notice the differences.

For the third time, here is the link to the new address.