Hamor Hollow now officially powered by Ubuntu!

Hamor Hollow now officially powered by Ubuntu!

After four years of having the same look and feel on the Hamor Hollow Hedgehogs Web site Kelly and I decided it was finally time to do a major overhaul, redesign the site from scratch, and upgrade to new technology. The old site served its purpose quite well but had become a headache to manage and navigate with no simple way to present our expanding base of information exactly how we wanted.

To add insult to injury the old site was hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux which is the primary competitor to Ubuntu Server Edition, the Linux distribution that my employer (Canonical) sponsors. This alone was enough to make the switch!

So for the past month I've been hard at work bringing up the new site on our Ubuntu Server hosted at ServerBeach, converting the backend to WordPress, migrating our thousands of hedgie photos to SmugMug, integrating YouTubeAmazon, Twitter, and SmugMug directly into the site, and just plain making sure all the puzzle pieces fit together without falling apart all over the floor.

But how does all this benefit you?

Discounts and free stuff!

  • Need some photography done or want to schedule a shoot with your new hedgie? Hamor Photography (that would be me) is the official photographer of Hamor Hollow!

  • Are you a photographer or just want a place to keep your photos online? Get $5 off SmugMug through this link!

  • Are you a geek and need server hosting? Get $100 off ServerBeach through this link!

  • Let us know if you're an Ubuntu fan when you schedule your visit and we'll have free Ubuntu schwag or discs waiting when you arrive!

More features! It slices, it dices!

  • The new Hamor Hollow Gallery powered by SmugMug is not only easier to use but also allows you to order prints and merchandise of your favorite photos! Did we photograph your hedgie at Hedgehog Fest or another event? Now you can order prints right from the gallery!

  • YouTube! We'll have more videos soon. Promise.

  • Since Twitter integrates directly into WordPress you'll always see Kelly's latest tweets of upcoming events and be notified whenever anything new is posted on the site!

  • WordPress is simple to use so Kelly will be updating the site and posting a lot more often!

  • You can actually find the information you're looking for now! No more articles hidden behind multiple levels of table of contents. Oh, and see that search box in the upper right? It actually works.

  • The site is faster! Faster connection powered by ServerBeach, faster server powered by Dell, faster software powered by WordPress and WP Super Cache!

  • If we have any product suggestions to go along with articles we'll link directly to Amazon's product description...no guessing about which product we're talking about! Like so:

[amazon_carousel widget_type="ASINList" width="590" height="200" title="Related products" market_place="US" shuffle_products="True" show_border="False" asin="B001N0H2JS" /]

There's always a catch...

Since we totally rebuilt the Web site from scratch some of our content is temporarily offline but will be returning shortly.

If you arrived here expecting to find another breeder's photo gallery then please go back to their site...we'll be working with them to get their galleries rehomed soon!

HappeningsKelly