Blogger.com

Until yesterday, SetACL’s web presence consisted of six static HTML pages. That was great for speed, but it sucked in almost every other aspect. And the design … better not speak about that. The old website was hosted on Sourceforge, on the subdomain setacl.sourceforge.net, to be exact. High time for a radical change. I wanted a good clean design, interactivity (commenting), easy maintenance and my own domain. And I wanted a place where I could assemble and store all the relevant content I publish on the web, namely blog articles and tweets. This is the story of the creation of that place.

Migrating a blog can be a very painful process, part of which stems from the fact that, if not done correctly, search engine valuation (aka PageRank) that took years to gain may be lost in days. Redirecting from the old blog to the new URL alleviates this problem at least, but not the way it is described on countless websites that recommend implementing JavaScript redirects search engines do not care about. Instead HTTP 301 redirects are needed which unfortunately required access to the .htaccess file on the web server hosting the old blog to set up. And you may have guessed already - Blogger.com does not grant that type of access.