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As you can see from the little link on the left, I am now pimping a new hosting company who is leaps and bounds better than hostonce (again, the name is simply a description of what the normal business relationship this company has with its clients). I previously mentioned how dissatisfied I was with my hosting provider. I used them for my portfolio site and always had some kind of problem with them. I drove me nuts because no matter what issue I was having (downtime, dns problems, slow ftp access, etc), it was my fault according to their IT team. I put up with far too long in my opinion.

Dreamhost is about the best hosting service I have found in the last year after doing a boatload of research. I have now transitioned four of my clients to their hosting service and have not had one problem. I guess they had some problems recently, but unlike many companies in this business, they immediately owned up to the problems and worked toward a resolution. You have to appreciate that kind of honesty.

Anyway, if you’re looking for a host, use the link on the left or visit dreamhost and use promo code EDESIGNHOSTING when you sign up (you’ll save a few bucks)… pimping them is the least i can do for their dedication to their customers.

I was going to post a video journal, but for some reason, it craps out in the middle… just when I’m explaining how my video would be better than limey’s because I, unlike him, have mastered the English language. I’m trying to work it out so please be patient.

On a more successful note, I’ve built three new players. I intend to customize these players so that they’ll fit any blog color scheme and layout. For right now, the players are about 200 pixels wide which means that anyone with the standard sidebar width of 200 pixels in a three column layout will experience problems. If your sidebar is wider than 200 pixels, no worries. I’m still playing with the player layout and I’m sure I can fit all the various pieces into a 150 pixel wide layout.

NOTE: I’ve revised the players and now you can have your choice between a skinny, healthy player of only 150 pixels in width which is just perfect for those who prefer 3 column blog designs (you know who you are). For a limited time, I will create a custom player skin for you featuring your blogs colors and any artwork you want featured…

Here are the new player options…

Black w/ Green Accents:

Blue with Dark Blue Accents

and Pink with Magenta Accents:

When in doubt, do it yourself, I always say. My host won’t participate in my domain mapping scheme. Am I surprised? Not really, since they don’t want to do much of anything that I want to do. I wanted to make sure people who still had my old blog address (literalspace.net) to get here without much effort on their end. So, I wrote a simple java script that automatically shoots you over. Well, in theory it should. Really simple, though… I’m sure others have done it more eleganty, but I’m a writer not a grinder.

[SCRIPT language="JavaScript"]
[!-- Hide from old browsers
window.location.replace("your.url.goes.here");
// Stop hiding --]
[/SCRIPT]

I placed this in the head tag (replacing ALL the brackets “[ ]” with carats “< >”