Tomorrow is the two-year anniversary of The Golf Chick blog. I’ve been meaning to move to my new domain for awhile now and figured this was a good time to do it. I’ll start my third year of blogging with a fresh new look and location.
I know I’ll experience some moving pains so you may still see some changes as I tweak things here and there. I have all the content copied over and each post has its own new permalink but all the hard coded links from my old site still need to be changed. All links to my old blogger site – to the homepage there or any individual posts – will be redirected to www.thegolfchick.com. If anyone has any ideas of how to fix that so it automatically redirects to the individual permalinks, I’d be happy to look into it. It’s going to be a tedious process to get all my own links fixed so that my “Golfchick Chronicles” feature will work without just redirecting to my homepage, but I will get it done eventually. I also know the redirect is pretty slow and I’m open to ideas on how to resolve that as well.
Obviously, if you subscribe to my feed, you’ll need to change it to continue getting the latest.
I cleaned out my blogroll and golf sites lists and gave them their own special pages accessible from the nav bar. I drew the cutoff line at around two months, so if you start posting again and want back on the list, let me know. If I have forgotten anyone of if you’d like to exchange links, please email me.
Back in December 2005, Bogey Man created the cute little chick-in-the-golf-ball logo
that I’ve been using ever since. I really appreciate it and have enjoyed it so much since then! So to thank him, I’ve completely ripped him off by creating my own version of his idea for my updated look. I still really like his version and will probably use both his and mine at times.
I am leaving tomorrow for a nice long weekend (yes, it will include golf and should result in some interesting posts) so I wanted to get this changeover done today.
If you encounter any problems with the new site (other than the permalink situation), please let me know. I’m kinda winging it here. Chicks do that. I will also welcome any other feedback you care to share.
It has been a great two years and I look forward to writing much more and introducing some new features as the months go on. Thanks for reading!
Apparently there’s some big golf tournament going on
Sports writers and golf bloggers are covering the U.S. Open and Oakmont Country Club with the same fervor of CNN covering Paris Hilton. No detail left unreported.
Of course the difference is sports writers and golf bloggers are supposed to write about golf. It’s right there in their titles. The Cable News Network is supposed to cover the news. Even if they could somehow win an argument that Paris Hilton is news, that doesn’t excuse them from failing to report on all the real news going on while they spend 24 hours on Shawskank Redemption (thanks, Jon Stewart).
But since this isn’t the Shmaily Shmow, I’ll get back to golf.
There is so much being said about this tournament and the golf course that I really don’t feel I have much to add. Just like I do, you can get all the latest from the fine bloggers in my links list as well as the journalists on the commercial sites. I’ll just watch and root on my favorites like the fan I am. And I’ll be checking in with Brandon Tucker for live bloggerage from the event. Congrats to Worldgolf for getting media credentials for their bloggers at recent events!
Speaking of Worldgolf, they’re conducting a survey and if you complete it, you’re entered into a drawing to win a set of Ping clubs and bag.
Next post.